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Noun-verb dissociation in aphasia: The role of imageability and functional locus of the lesion [An article from: Neuropsychologia]

This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychologia, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Aphasic patients occasionally manifest a dissociated naming ability between objects and actions: this phenomenon has been interpreted as evidence of a separate organization for nouns and verbs in the mental lexicon. Nevertheless...next

Review: A Slender Thread by Katharine Davis

Title: A Slender Thread

Author: Katharine Davis
Genre/Pages: Fiction/ 352
Publisher: NAL Trade; August 3, 2010
Rating: 3 Bookmarks
Source: Publisher
Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: A well-written novel that examines the impact that an illness has on a family.
With a single phone call or the results of a battery of medical testing, life can change in a moment.  But a grim diagnosis is just the pebble dropping into the lake; author Katharine Davis examines the effects of the dropped pebble’s ripples.
50-year-old Lacey George’s diagnosis of aphasia, a rare and progressive disease that will rob her of speech, communication, and eventually her life, is not the crux of this novel.  Instead, Davis uses the disease as a springboard to create a study of how a devastating illness changes the dynamic of a family.

Embolism of Left Middle Cerebral Artery with Aphasia and Agraphia

Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: towards a computational model

POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access
Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in
bilingual aphasia: towards a computational model
Uli Grasemann1*, Chaleece Sandberg2, Swathi Kiran2, Risto Miikkulainen1
From Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2010
San Antonio, TX, USA. 24-30 July 2010
Bilingual aphasia, defined as a loss of one or both languages
in bilingual individuals that results from left
hemisphere damage, is of increasing interest worldwide
premorbid
language proficiency, and post-morbid language
performance influence the nature and degree of crosslanguage
transfer...Next

Scoring Software for the Comprehensive Aphasia Test

• By Robin Keith, and Elise Croot.

The Scoring Software for the Comprehensive Aphasia Test makes scoring CAT assessments easy. Enter results from the CAT scoring book into the easy-to-use spreadsheet and the software instantly calculates totals and t-scores and produces three graphs that can be shared with clients and their families. Scoring sheets can be stored electronically, printed, or embedded into reports.
Benefits for therapists, their clients, and NHS departments include:

• Significantly reduces the time spent scoring.
• Simplifies the process of scoring, calculation, interpretation and analysis of results, and improves accuracy....Next

Experts develop unique metric to declare the possibility of aphasia after a stroke

Aphasia is a language

disorder that may occur after a brain injury

especially stroke. Experts from the NewYork – Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center claim to have established a means to forecast post-stroke recovery of language by measuring the initial severity of impairment. Prediction of stroke recovery seems to be extremely beneficial for stroke survivors and their families.
Earlier scientists held the opinion that factors such as size of the stroke, patient age and education, and specific characteristics of the type of language deficit can determine recovery. But a definite metric predicting the precise recovery was not available. In the latest research, investigators employed Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) test for evaluating language function at 24 – 72 hours after the occurrence of a stroke. The researchers mentioned that the test was again used at 90 days.....Next

Language difficulty in adults (in plain English)

What is language?


Language is the ability to understand words and to use them to make sentences.
What types of language difficulty affect adults?


A language difficulty can include problems with:


* comprehension (understanding what other people say)
* expression (putting words together in the right order to make sentences)


Some adults may have had a language difficulty since childhood. It may not have gone away.


Others might develop a language difficulty after a medical condition such as a stroke or a head injury.


When people develop language difficulties later in life, this is called an acquired disorder. ..Next....