"If you're a modern neurologist, you'll recognize this as a type of aphasia, a common symptom of stroke. You'll also know that aphasia is a language problem, not an intelligence problem; the patient may be able to think quite clearly but just can't translate those thoughts into coherent words and sentences. But it took many decades and a great deal of scientific effort to arrive at this modern understanding."
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A patient may be alert and physically intact after a stroke yet produce fluent but largely unintelligible speech composed of real words, misused words, and neologisms. Such presentation reflects aphasia, a disorder of language production and comprehension distinct from general intelligence. Patients with aphasia can retain clear thinking while lacking the ability to translate thoughts into coherent words and sentences. Historical clinical opinion often conflated aphasia with impaired intelligence, a view that persisted into the early twentieth century until clinical research demonstrated that language and thought are separable and distinct mental properties.
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