By Chris Code

A survey of the most behavioural features or indicators of aphasia, which offers a sequence of essays at the historical past and present advancements during this box of neuropsychological learn. individuals speak about restoration, rehabilitation and different modern matters.

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Funkenstein, H. , Duncan, G. W. and Davis, K. R. (1978) Broca aphasia: pathologic and clinical. Neurology 28, 311-24. Naeser, M. , Alexander, M. , Levine, H. , Laughlin, S. and Geschwind, N. (1982) Aphasia with predominantly subcortical lesion sites: description of three capsular/putaminal aphasia syndromes&ives ofNeurology 39, 2-14. Naeser, M. A. and Hayward, R. W. (1978) Lesion localization in aphasia with cranial computed tomography and the Boston diagnostic aphasia examination. Neurology 28, 545-51.

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1985) reported the cases of three girls, aged 9-11 years, who developed fluent aphasia, in two cases conduction aphasia, in association with acute brain damage. Localization of lesion was in the posterior part of the left hemisphere encroaching upon Wernicke’s area in all cases. These observations were at variance with the commonly held view that acquired aphasia in children is invariably nonfluent and that paraphasias are not observed. Neuropsychological There fluent In this some and neurolinguistic investigations are very many papers in the literature where groups of patients with aphasia are compared with nonfluent patients in various performances.

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