Jargon aphasia
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'''Jargon aphasia''' is a fluent or receptive [[aphasia]] in which the [[patient|patient's]] [[Speech communication|speech]] is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to them. Speech is fluent and effortless with intact [[syntax]] and [[grammar]], but the patient has problems with the selection of [[noun]]s. They will either replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection, or they will replace it with [[sound]]s. Accordingly, patients with jargon aphasia often use [[neologism]]s, and may [[perseveration|perseverate]] if they try to replace the words they can't find with sounds.
Commonly, substitutions involve picking another (actual) word starting with the same sound (e.g. clocktower - colander), picking another semantically related to the first (e.g. letter - scroll), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one (e.g. lane - late).
[[Category:Neurological disorders]]
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