Ms.Ellison recently had a cerebrovascular accident.As a result,she now displays language problems,such as agrammatism and phonemic paraphasias.The stroke appears to have damaged her ____.

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Broca's area is responsible for the production of language and is located in the frontal lobe of the brain. Damage to this area can lead to agrammatism (inability to structure sentences properly) and phonemic paraphasias (word substitution errors). The other options, upper parietal lobe and upper occipital lobe, are not directly involved in language production. Wernicke's area is responsible for language comprehension and damage to this area would result in difficulty understanding language rather than producing it.

MsEllison Recently Had a Cerebrovascular Accident