logagnosia


alogia

A feature of schizophrenia characterised by poverty of speech and/or speech content, blocking, or latency of response. Typically, a patient gives brief and concrete replies to questions and restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech (poverty of speech); sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overly concrete or abstract, repetitive or stereotyped (poverty of content).

a·pha·si·a

(ă-fā'zē-ă) Impaired or absent comprehension or production of, or communication by, speech, writing, or signs; due to an acquired lesion of or injury to a language center of the brain; may be transient if cerebral swelling subsides.
Compare: alalia, aphonia
Synonym(s): alogia (1) , dysphasia, dysphrasia, logagnosia, logamnesia, logasthenia.
[G. speechlessness, fr. a- priv. + phasis, speech]

logagnosia

(log?ag-no'zh-a, sha) [Gr. logos, word, reason + agnosia] A type of aphasia in which words are seen but not identified with respect to their meaning. See: aphasia