Aphasia and Brain Organization

Ivar Reinvang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4757-9216-4 (ISBN)

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This book presents the work on aphasia coming out of the Institute for Aphasia and Stroke in Norway during its 10 years of existence. Rather than reviewing previously presented work, it was my desire to give a unified analysis and discussion of our accumulated data. The empirical basis for the analysis is a fairly large group (249 patients) investigated with a standard, comprehensive set of procedures. Tests of language functions must be developed anew for each language, but comparison of my findings with other recent compre hensive studies of aphasia is faciliated by close parallels in test meth ods (Chapter 2). The classification system used is currently the most accepted neurological system, but I have operationalized it for research purposes (Chapter 3). The analyses presented are based on the view that aphasia is an aspect of a multidimensional disturbance of brain function. Find ings of associated disturbances and variations in the aphasic condition over time have been dismissed by some as irrelevant to the study of aphasia as a language deficit. My view is that this rich and complex set of findings gives important clues to the organization of brain functions in humans. I present analyses of the relationship of aphasia to neuropsychological disorders in conceptual organization, memory, visuospatial abilities and apraxia (Chapters 4, 5, and 6), and I study the variations with time of the aphasic condition (Chapter 8).

1. Approaches to the Study of Aphasia.- 2. Operationalization of a Model.- 3. Types of Aphasia.- 4. Selective Aphasias.- 5. Memory and Learning Deficits.- 6. Defects of Visual Nonverbal Abilities.- 7. Localization of Lesion in Aphasia.- 8. Recovery and Prognosis.- 9. The Organized Response of the Brain to Injury.- References.

Reihe/Serie	Applied Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders
Zusatzinfo	XI, 195 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4757-9216-6 / 1475792166
ISBN-13	978-1-4757-9216-4 / 9781475792164
Zustand	Neuware