Broca aphasia, also known as expressive aphasia or motor aphasia, is a type of non-fluent aphasia usually caused by injury (e.g. stroke) to Broca's area and the surrounding frontal fields 1,2.
Clinical presentation
Broca aphasia has classic effects on speech 1,2:
- fluency: non-fluent and effortful speech with agrammatism
- comprehension: relatively preserved with only mild impairments of complex comprehension
- repetition: impaired
- naming: impaired
Differential diagnosis
- transcortical motor aphasia: shares clinical features of Broca aphasia but has preserved repetition 1,2
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