Expressive Aprosodia Following Stroke to the Right Basal Ganglia: A Case Report Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Presented here is a case report of a 16-year-old adolescent who, after experiencing an embolic stroke to subcortical structures of the right hemisphere, evidenced motor aprosodia. The patient was administered a test of receptive emotional prosody. In addition, the patient was asked to state a series of stimulus sentences to determine if she was able to spontaneously convey emotions (happy, sad, mad) appropriately and was asked to repeat a series of stimulus sentences to determine if she could convey the same emotions as the speaker. She demonstrated aprosodic agestural speech, aprosodic repetition, and good prosodic comprehension. This case report supports the notion of right-hemisphere organization of the emotional aspects of language and the existence of subcortical aprosodias analogous to subcortical aphasias.

published proceedings

  • Neuropsychology

author list (cited authors)

  • Cohen, M. J., Riccio, C. A., & Flannery, A. M.

citation count

  • 39

complete list of authors

  • Cohen, Morris J||Riccio, Cynthia A||Flannery, Ann Marie

publication date

  • January 1994