A stroke patient can understand when you tell her to do something but she is not able to produce grammatical, comprehensible speech. Which specific area of her brain is damaged?


A. The globus pallidus
B. The language cortex of the occipital lobe
C. The limbic system
D. The Wernicke area
E. The Broca area


E. The Broca area

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