Aphasia: A Clinical PerspectiveOxford University Press, 1996 - 441 pages An up-to-date, integrated analysis of the language disturbances associated with brain pathology, this book examines the different types of aphasia combining two clinical approaches: the neurological and the neuropsychological. Although they stress the clinical aspects of aphasia syndromes, they also review assessment techniques, linguistic analyses, problems of aphasia classification, and frequently occurring related disorders such as alexia, agraphia, alcalculia, and anomia. In addition, they examine commonly encountered speech disorders, neurobehavioral and psychiatric problems commonly associated with aphasia, and the language characteristics of aging and dementia. Rehabilitation and recovery are discussed, and a neural basis for aphasia and related problems is proposed. Neuropsychologists, neurologists, speech therapists, psychiatrists, and occupational therapists will find this book invaluable when dealing with language disorders resulting from brain disease or injury. |
Contents
Historical Background | 10 |
Variations within Aphasia | 29 |
Linguistic Analyses of Aphasia | 46 |
Brain Damage in Aphasia | 61 |
Assessment of Aphasia | 88 |
Syndromology | 109 |
Classifications of Aphasia | 111 |
Perisylvian Aphasic Syndromes | 121 |
Acalculia | 235 |
Anomia | 252 |
Neural Basis of Language Functions | 262 |
Related Disorders | 279 |
Speech Disorders | 281 |
Associated Neurologic and Behavioral Problems | 293 |
Communication Disturbances in Aging and Dementia | 309 |
Psychiatric Aspects of Aphasia | 326 |
Extrasylvian Transcortical Aphasic Syndromes | 146 |
Subcortical Speech and Language Syndromes | 166 |
Alexia | 180 |
Agraphia | 212 |
Recovery from Aphasia | 343 |
Management and Rehabilitation of Aphasia | 354 |
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