Aphasia A Clinical Perspective [Hardcover]

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.

I. Basic Considerations
1. What is Aphasia?
2. Historical Background
3. Variations within Aphasia
4. Linguistic Analyses in Aphasia
5. Brain Damage in Aphasia
6. Assessment of Aphasia
II. Syndromology
7. Classifications of Aphasia
8. Perisylvan Aphasic Syndromes
9. Extrasylvan (Transcortical) Aphasic Syndromes
10. Subcortical Speech and Language Syndromes
11. Alexia
12. Agraphia
13. Acalculia
14. Anomia
15. Neural Basis of Language Functions
III. Related Disorders
16. Speech Disorders
17. Associated Neurologic and Behavioral Problems
18. Communication Disturbances in Aging and Dementia
19. Psychiatric Aspects of Aphasia
IV. Rehabilitation
20. Recovery from Aphasia
21. Management and Rehabilitation of Aphasia

D. Frank Benson, M.D., is Augustus S. Rose Professor Emeritus of Neurology at University of California at Los Angeles.
Alfredo Ardila, Pl£z