288 Pages
by
Psychology Press
288 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Transcortical aphasias is the term used for syndromes in which the ability to repeat language is relatively preserved despite marked disturbances in other linguistic domains. Although there are a number of well-known reference texts on language disturbances after acquired brain damage that uncover the classical syndromes of aphasia (e.g. conduction aphasia) in a comprehensive fashion, this... Read more
1.Historical Aspects 2.Language Testing 3.Transcortical Motor Aphasia 4.Transcortical Sensory Aphasia 5.Mixed Transcortical Aphasia 6.Echophenomena, Automatic Speech, and Prosody in Transcortical Sensory Aphasia 7.Neuroanatomical Correlates of Transcortical Aphasias 8.Conclusions Aphasia.
Biography
Marcelo L. Berthier
'Readers immersed in the detailed study of aphasia will welcome this book as a valid attempt to integrate the accumulated knowledge, which in other texts on aphasia is usually discussed only briefly.' - APA Review of Books
