A 63-year-old woman was taken to the ER by her husband. She…

 A 63-year-old woman was taken to the ER by her husband. She spoke slowly and used only single syllable nouns and verbs, and was frustrated that she could not respond better to simple questions. Her writing was slow and awkward, and she had difficulty copying several sentences. Her grip and finger movements were weaker on the right than the left, and when asked to bare her teeth, her mouth opened less on the right than on the left. The language problems in this patient are characteristic of: