Damage to C (motor) wouldn’t explain fluency problems. Fluency (=Latin flow; the ease with which the brain formulates words). Slurred speech is your brain knowing and formulating the words easy but your mouth muscles not co-operating!
So, dis-fluency ≠ slurred speech. This gentleman is dis-fluent in the same way you’re dis-fluent when you visit Paris: your brain struggles to formulate French words in the first place! The only lesion that explains that in your native tongue is a lesion to the language synthesis center = Broca’s area.
I put C because I thought that the weakness of the lower 2/3 face meant there was something more going on than just speech problems from Broca's aphasia.
drdoomDamage to C (motor) wouldn’t explain *fluency* problems. Fluency (=Latin ``flow``; the ease with which the brain formulates words). Slurred speech is your brain knowing and formulating the words easy but your mouth muscles not co-operating!+
drdoomSo, dis-fluency ≠ slurred speech. This gentleman is dis-fluent in the same way you’re dis-fluent when you visit Paris: your brain struggles to formulate French words in the first place! The only lesion that explains that in your native tongue is a lesion to the language synthesis center = Broca’s area.+
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Damage to C (motor) wouldn’t explain fluency problems. Fluency (=Latin
flow; the ease with which the brain formulates words). Slurred speech is your brain knowing and formulating the words easy but your mouth muscles not co-operating!So, dis-fluency ≠ slurred speech. This gentleman is dis-fluent in the same way you’re dis-fluent when you visit Paris: your brain struggles to formulate French words in the first place! The only lesion that explains that in your native tongue is a lesion to the language synthesis center = Broca’s area.