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Robert Cohn, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;22(6):515-520.

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Although much has been written upon the subject (aphasia) of late years it is still one beset with difficulty of a most baffling description.—1869.

EARLY in the study of language disorders Broca,¹ as part of an inclusive classification, defined amnesia verbalis as a speech defect resulting from the loss of the memory of words. These patients had difficulty in appreciating the conventional association developed between ideas and words. At times the elementary phonetic output appeared normal, but the word and sound combinations in general did not specifically pertain to the subject under discussion. Despite these verbal defects the patient sometimes indicated by appropriate social behavior, and by other nonverbal acts that there was some preservation of interpersonal function.

Contemporaneously, Bastian,^2,3 as a consequence of his basic philosophy of language, which proposed that "we think in words," equated speech disorders in a general way with amnesia.

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Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md

From the Department of Research Neurology, US Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 4, 1969; accepted Jan 3, 1970.

Reprint requests to US Naval Hospital, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md 20014 (Dr. Cohn).

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