2018 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 255-259
In order to not miss a mild aphasia that does not show obvious problems in everyday conversation, an alternative detection method using another neuropsychological tests was examined. The subjects were divided into mild aphasic group and non-aphasic group based on the presence or absence of aphasia in 33 stroke patients who had the Standard Language Test of Aphasia (SLTA) total score of 10 points. Several neuropsychological tests were carried out and the scores were compared between the two groups. As a result, mild aphasic group showed lower scores in frontal assessment battery and word fluency test than non-aphasic group. We suggested that the presence or absence of aphasia could be determined by the result of word fluency test by using the decision tree analysis.
