You are attending a staff meeting at the hospital where you work. One of the patients was described as exhibiting nonfluent aphasia. Based on your knowledge of the brain, you are quite sure that the damage occurred in which area of the brain?
a) pons
b) medulla
c) corpus callosum
d) Broca's area
ANS: d
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