Aphasia A Clinical Perspective

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.

D. Frank Benson, M.D., is Augustus S. Rose Professor Emeritus of Neurology at University of California at Los Angeles.
Alfredo Ardila, Ph.D., is Coordinator of the Neuropsychology Program at Miami Institute of Psychology.

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