I. Beginnings
1. Aphasia: A Historical Perspective, Heidi L. Roth and Kenneth M.
Heilman
II. Dimensions of Language Dysfunction
2. Fluency, Margaret L. Greenwald, Stephen E. Nadeau, and Leslie J.
Gonzalez Rothi
3. Phonology, Stephen E. Nadeau
4. Disorders of Word Retrieval in Aphasia: Theories and Potential
Applications, Carolyn E. Wilshire and H. Branch Coslett
5. The Semantic System, Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez
Rothi
6. Grammar and Agrammatism, Anjan Chatterjee and Lynn Maher
III. Behavioral Disorders Associated with Aphasia
7. The Acquired Dyslexias, Margaret L. Greenwald
8. Agraphia, Steven Z. Rapcsak and Pelagie M. Beeson
9. Apraxia of Speech: A Treatable Disorder of Motor Planning and
Programming, Malcolm R. McNeil, Patrick J. Doyle, and Julie
Wambaugh
10. Limb Apraxia, Cynthia Ochipa and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi
11. Language Use, Lee Xenakis Blonder
IV. Emerging Alternative Approaches
12. Connectionist Models and Language, Stephen E. Nadeau
13. Attention, Resource Allocation, and Language, Ira Fischler
14. Systems That Support Language Processes: Attention, Bruce
Crosson
15. Systems That Support Language Processes: Verbal Working Memory,
Bruce Crosson
V. Practical Considerations
16. Single-Subject Experimental Designs in Aphasia, Kevin P.
Kearns
Stephen E. Nadeau, MD, Staff Neurologist, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, and Research Director, Physiological and Behavioral Treatment Initiative, VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida; Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"The study of aphasia has been a lodestone for a great variety of
intellectual and clinical disciplines. In fact, it could be argued
that the study of acquired language disorders was the doorway into
what have become the modern fields of cognitive neuroscience and
neuropsychology. This volume offers a remarkable assortment of
chapters from many of the diverse scientists and clinicians who
have concerned themselves with this increasingly complex and
specialized topic. In one volume readers will find detailed
presentations of up-to-date information on the clinical features,
psycholinguistic analysis, and history of the study of aphasia. The
chapters are well written and will have something to offer to both
experts and students new to the area. This book will serve as a
stand-alone textbook for courses on aphasia for physicians, speech
pathologists, and neuropsychologists." --William Milberg, PhD,
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Brockton/West
Roxbury VAMC, Brockton, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School
"Simple clinical phenomenology does not illuminate the complexity
of aphasia well--not for diagnosis, treatment, or fundamental
understanding. Most texts that attempt to illuminate language
disorders more brightly fail because of limited points of
perspective. Here, however, the authors have worked together for
years, and their comfort in relating their individual perspectives
to a larger picture of language is evident throughout the text.
Beginners in the field will find this book challenging but
rewarding. Experienced aphasiologists will be stimulated by the
density of intelligence to be found." --Michael P. Alexander, MD,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
"Across the disciplines of neurology, neuropsychology, speech
pathology, and cognitive neuroscience, language function and
dysfunction have long been an enduring and unifying topic of
research. Yet even in this era of amazing technology applied to
clinical problems in neuroscience, there is still so much to learn.
Edited by three scientist-practitioners with a wealth of experience
and background in this area, this text addresses such fundamental
issues as the neural systems underlying language, how language is
generated, and the neurologic and neuropathologic bases of aphasia
and other disorders. Coherent, well-integrated chapters review
theoretical and empirical foundations and explore practical
applications in the behavioral-language domain."--Erin D. Bigler,
PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University
"This book is expansive in concept and realization. The authors
have undertaken an important and largely ignored task--that of
directly connecting theory to practice in relation to a variety of
problems that comprise the spectrum of aphasia. For many scientists
and clinicians, this book will be simply invaluable. It serves as a
bridge linking theoretical aspects of aphasia in principled and
helpful ways." --Audrey Holland, PhD, Department of Speech and
Hearing Science, University of Arizona
This book is expansive in concept and realization. The authors have
undertaken an important and largely ignored task--that of directly
connecting theory to practice in relation to a variety of problems
that comprise the spectrum of aphasia. For many scientists and
clinicians, this book will be simply invaluable. It serves as a
bridge linking theoretical aspects of aphasia in principled and
helpful ways. - Audrey Holland, PhD, Department of Speech and
Hearing Science, University of Arizona
Across the disciplines of neurology, neuropsychology, speech
pathology, and cognitive neuroscience, language function and
dysfunction have long been an enduring and unifying topic of
research. Yet even in this era of amazing technology applied to
clinical problems in neuroscience, there is still so much to learn.
Edited by three scientist-practitioners with a wealth of experience
and background in this area, this text addresses such fundamental
issues as the neural systems underlying language, how language is
generated, and the neurologic and neuropathologic bases of aphasia
and other disorders. Coherent, well-integrated chapters review
theoretical and empirical foundations and explore practical
applications in the behavioral-language domain. - Erin D. Bigler,
PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University
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