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<i>Patients demonstrate<b> intact language but inability to communicate. 
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<br/>Key features are:
<br/>1. Insensitivity to context: missing nuances and subtleties
<br/>2. Difficulty organizing information in a meaningful way: answering questions with tangential, unnecessary information
<br/>3. Difficulty reading facial expressions &amp; gestures
<br/>4. Inability to understand figurative language
<br/>5. Lack of affect
<br/>6. Caustic sense of humor
<br/>7. Impulsivity
<br/>8. Left neglect
<br/>9. Denial of deficits
<br/>10. Better performance on structured than open-ended tasks
<br/>11. Writing errors: failure to dot the ‘i’ and cross the ‘t’


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