Redefining Recovery from Aphasia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvDalia Cahana-Amitay,Martin Albert,USA) Cahana-Amitay, Dalia (Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, Associate Director, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center And Language In The Aging Brain, Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, Associate Director, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center And Language In The Aging Brain, Boston University, Boston, MA,USA) Albert, Martin (Professor of Neurology, Director, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Professor of Neurology, Director, Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA

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This book focuses on two fundamental aspects of brain-language relations: one concerns the neural organization of language in the healthy brain; the other challenges current approaches to treatment of aphasia and offers a new theory for recovery from aphasia. The essence of the book lies in the phrase neural multifunctionality: the constant and dynamic incorporation of non-linguistic functions into language models of the intact brain. The book makes the claim that language is a construction, created as we use it, and cannot be understood as being supported by neurally based linguistic networks only. Rather, language emerges from the constant and dynamic interaction among neural networks subserving cognitive, affective, and praxic functions with neural networks subserving lexical retrieval (naming), sentence processing (comprehension), and discourse (communication, conversation). In persons with stroke-induced aphasia, neural networks for executive system function, attention, memory, motor system function, visual system function, and emotion interact with neural networks for language to produce the aphasia profile and to influence recovery from aphasia. Consequently, neural multifunctionality in aphasia explains individual differences in the lesion-deficit model and continued recovery over time, redefining the concept of recovery from aphasia and offering new opportunities for treatment.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-12
Mått239 x 160 x 17 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199811939

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1. What we know and do not know about recovery from aphasia ; 2. Language in the healthy brain: evidence for multifunctionality ; 3. Executive functions and aphasia recovery ; 4. Attention systems and aphasia recovery ; 5. The role of memory functions in aphasia recovery ; 6. The role of emotion in recovery from aphasia ; 7. Praxis in aphasia recovery ; 8. Visual processing in aphasia recovery ; 9. Redefining recovery from aphasia

Aphasia, an impairment of propositional language caused by brain dysfunction, is one of the most common and disabling disorders afflicting humans. This important book, written by two world renowned aphasiologists, makes a paradigmatic shift. These authors address aphasic disorders and recovery by examining nonlinguistic neurobehavioral factors, such as emotions, praxis, and executive functions. These nonlinguistic functions are mediated by functional networks that are independent, but strongly interconnected with the primary language areas and thus play an import role in supporting recovery and adaptation. This important book is critical reading for those clinicians, educators and investigators who deal with people who are suffering with aphasia.