Patient "Tan," Studied by the Neurologist Broca, Had Great Difficulty

question 51

Multiple Choice

Patient "Tan," studied by the neurologist Broca, had great difficulty in generating spontaneous speech and was unable to utter any word other than the nonsense syllable "tan." Postmortem autopsy of Tan's brain revealed

• A)abnormal EEG signals from the left frontal operculum.
• B)a lesion in the left inferior frontal cortex.
• C)cerebral hemorrhage in the right inferior frontal lobes.
• D)demyelination in a region of the left anterior frontal lobes.

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