[The frontiers of aphasia].
Brain lesions located outside the language area may be associated with non-aphasic disorders of language. The difficulties encountered by these patients concern one or several of the following levels: incitement to communicate, initiation and maintenance of verbal activity, internal organization and adequation of the discourse to the context, mastery of the lexico-semantic code. In every case, the elementary aspects of language are untouched, but verbal communication is severely perturbed.
Poncet
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Service de neurologie et de neuropsychologie, CHU de la Timone, Marseille.
Ceccaldi
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D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000293:injuries; D003221:Confusion / Q000150:complications; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology