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Chapter 2 - Aphasia, Apraxia, and Agnosia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Robert Laureno
Robert Laureno
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia are terms we use to describe clinical abnormalities. Each term is applied to a variety of neurologic disorders. In a given case more than one of the terms could be appropriate to describe the deficit. The phenomena to which these words are applied have no uniform patho-anatomic basis.

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AphasiaAgnosiaApraxia
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Insights into Clinical Neurology , pp. 9 - 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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