Aphasia: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment : Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Aphasia is a language disorder in which there is an impairment (but not loss) of speech and of comprehension of speech. Depending on the area and extent of the damage, someone suffering from aphasia may be able to speak but not write, or vice versa, or display any of a wide variety of other deficiencies in language comprehension and production. This book will review grammatical world class processing by aphasic individuals and bilingual aphasia, each of which is essential to an understanding of the topic. This book will also examine the role of the right hemisphere for language processing and successful therapeutic interventions in aphasic patients. Furthermore, new findings for the understanding of neural processes involved in the recovery of language functions in aphasic subjects are discussed. This book also expands and improves upon the currently accepted methodology used in the diagnosis of dementia, particularly when aphasia is a core symptom. Finally, dual-route models and right-hemispheric accounts are examined to predict comprehension of figurative language in healthy speakers as well as in patients with language disorders. Preface investigating grammatical word class distinctions in bilingual aphasic individuals / Maria Kambanaros The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Language Processing in Aphasic Patients / Thomas Straube Category and Letter Fluency in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease / Cecile A. Marczinski Real-time Comprehension in Agrammatic Aphasia / Petra B. Schumacher Synthetic Expressions Do Not Standby / Dieter G. Hillert Lateralizing Value of Postictal Perseveration in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy / Andras Fogarasi Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and bilingual anomia / Patricia M. Roberts & Swathi Kiran Considerations for an Ethnopsycholinguistic Framework for Aphasia Intervention with Bilingual Speakers / José Centeno Imaging Poststroke Aphasia / A. Hillis Index.