GOODGLASS AND KAPLANS TEST IN PATIENTS WITH LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES DUE TO THALAMIC LESIONS

Abstract

Out of 3 patients, 2 with language difficulties from ischemic, tumoral or hemorrhagic lesions of the left thalamus were studied by means of Goodglass and Kaplan''s test. Results were compared to those obtained by using the same test in a patient with a hemorrhagic lesion in the posterior ramus of the left internal capsule, but with no thalamic lesion. The autonomy of the clinical picture of thalamic aphasia as described in several cases reported in the published literature is demonstrated. The term, aphasia, can be applied to these cases as long as care is taken when defining them.