Abstract: Three hundred and fifty cases with acute cerebral infarction were included in this study for the analysis of language disturbances. According to the examination of Chinese aphasia(draft) of acute cerebral infarction (language disturbances). The series comprised 100 cases with dysarthria caused by bulbar palsy resulted from multiple infarction in cerebrum,infarction in pons or medulla oblongata,40 cases with cerebellar language caused by infarction in brain stem or cerebellum and 210 cases with various types of aphasia. The last group was sorted into peri-lateral fissure aphasia (n=71, 33.8%), watershed aphasia(60,28.6%), complete aphasia(31,14.8%),anomic aphasia(8,3.8%) and subcortical aphasia(40,19.0%). CT and MRI showed that the intracranial lesions corresponded to the types of aphasia in 195 cases(92.9%). The results showed that disorders of speech and language were related to the position of cerebral infarction and the lesion of CT(MRI).

Key words: cerebral infarction, disorders of speech and language, aphasia