Which aphasia is non-fluent with impaired comprehension, reading, and writing, but repetition relatively preserved?

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Which aphasia is non-fluent with impaired comprehension, reading, and writing, but repetition relatively preserved?

This item tests distinguishing aphasia syndromes by the pattern of language deficits across speaking, understanding, reading, writing, and repetition. The defining clue here is nonfluent speech with impaired comprehension and reading/writing, yet repetition is relatively preserved. Repetition sparing is a hallmark of mixed transcortical aphasia, which arises when language zones are isolated from the perisylvian cortex while the repetition pathway remains intact. In this profile, spontaneous speech and comprehension are severely affected, but the ability to repeat is preserved, and reading and writing are typically impaired as well due to broader language disruption. So the pattern described most closely fits mixed transcortical aphasia.

This item tests distinguishing aphasia syndromes by the pattern of language deficits across speaking, understanding, reading, writing, and repetition. The defining clue here is nonfluent speech with impaired comprehension and reading/writing, yet repetition is relatively preserved. Repetition sparing is a hallmark of mixed transcortical aphasia, which arises when language zones are isolated from the perisylvian cortex while the repetition pathway remains intact. In this profile, spontaneous speech and comprehension are severely affected, but the ability to repeat is preserved, and reading and writing are typically impaired as well due to broader language disruption. So the pattern described most closely fits mixed transcortical aphasia.

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