[Conduction aphasia and phonemic disorder].
Conduction aphasia is usually described as a repetition impairment. Semiology or pathophysiology cannot be explained with this definition. We report a single case particularly demonstrative. The patient showed spontaneous speech, denomination, repetition and reading impairments. Main errors were phonemic paraphasia. No arthric disorder nor comprehension impairment was observed. Damage of supramarginalis gyrus and Wernicke's area was found. A cognitive analysis suggested that the phonological buffer and the working memory were impaired. Implication for rehabilitation, which included segmentation and semantisation associated to phonological training, is discussed. The course of the conduction aphasia was good and the patient was able to work again.
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Service de Rééducation Neurologique, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47, bd de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris.
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