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Edited By Francois Boller, MD, PhD, Bethesda, MD, USA Jordan Grafman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Description Volume 3 in the series Handbook of Neuropsychology, covers traditional approaches to the topic as well as new techniques for investigating
language disorders. Separate chapters provide detailed treatments of each of the prominent symptoms of aphasia (e.g., deficits of speech
production and perception, of naming, repetition, comprehension, etc.), including cognitive and psycholinguistic interpretations. The
cognitive disorders that are related to aphasia, including memory and attentional impairments, limb apraxia and acalculia, are discussed
in separate chapters. Supplementing these reviews of aphasia research are chapters detailing other approaches to the study of language/brain
relationships, including functional neuroimaging, event-related potentials, direct cortical stimulation and study of "split brain" patients.
Each chapter provides a current review of its topic, with extensive references, providing invaluable reference material for the researcher
and clinician.
Contents
Section 1. The Study of Aphasia
History of research on adult language and its disorders (R. De Bleser). Neuroanatomy
of the classical syndromes of aphasia (N.F. Dronkers, J. Larsen). The signs of aphasia (G. Hickok, U. Bellugi). Comparative aphasiology:
cross-language studies of aphasia (L. Menn). Bilingual and polyglot aphasia (M. Paradis).
Section 2. Understanding the
Symptoms of Aphasia
Deficits of speech production and speech perception in aphasia (S.E. Blumstein). Words fail me:
symptoms and causes of naming breakdown in aphasia (L. Nickels). Repetition disorders in aphasia: theoretical and clinical implications
(N. Martin). Effects of language impairment on sentence comprehension (E.M. Saffran). More than just words: sentence production in aphasia
(R.S. Berndt). Discourse ability in patients with unilateral left and right hemisphere brain damage (H. Brownell, O. Friedman). Acquired
reading disorders (M. Greenwald). Spelling disorders: cognitive theory in clinical practice (B. Rapp, D. Gotsch).
Section
3: Related Cognitive Disorders .
Relations between language and memory deficits (R.C. Martin, M.L. Freedman). Language
and attention (H.B. Coslett). Disorders of skilled movement (L.M. Maher, L.J. Gonzalez Rothi). Disorders of body representation (C. Semenza).
Disturbances of number processing and calculation (L. Cipolotti, N. Van Harskamp).
Section 4. Alternative Methods for
the Study of Language/Brain Relationships.
Functional neuroimaging of language (S.L. Small, M.W. Burton). Event-related
brain potentials and aphasia (A.D. Friederici). Direct cortical electrical interference (stimulation) (B. Gordon, D. Boatman, J. Hart,
Jr., D. Miglioretti, R.P. Lesser). Hemispheric specialization for language in the split brain (E. Zaidel).
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