Aphasia which affects the arcuate fibres is called?: (A) Global aphasia, (B) Anomic aphasia, (C) Conduction aphasia, (D) Broca's aphasia
Answer is C. Harrison's principles of internal medicine 17th edition. * Speech output is fluent but para phasic. The lesion sites spare Broca's and Wernicke's area but may induce a functional disconnection between two so that lexical representation formed in Wernicke's area cannot be conveyed to Broca's area.