A Current Controversy Regarding the Usefulness of Broca's Aphasia as a Diagnostic

A current controversy regarding the usefulness of Broca's aphasia as a diagnostic category focuses on the observation that

A) there is no strict correspondence between lesions of Broca's area and the symptoms classically associated with Broca's aphasia.
B) Broca's aphasia is far too frequently diagnosed and may actually subsume other subtypes of aphasia.
C) Broca's aphasia has been found to occur as a result of right-hemisphere injury just as often as left-hemisphere injury.
D) Broca's aphasia is usually a secondary aphasia rather than a selective deficit.

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