Speech and Language Disorders Associated with Subcortical Pathology (eBook)

Professor Bruce E Murdoch, Director, Motor Speech Research Centre and Head, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Bruce's research interests are in physiological assessment and treatment of adult and child motor speech disorders including CVA, head injury, multiple sclerosis, brain tumour and Parkinson's disease; subcortical aphasia; language disorders in traumatic brain injury; speech and language disorders in childhood cancer. He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, and on the editorial boards of several other major publications. He is the Foundation President of the, Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing, and Vice-President, International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. Dr Brooke-Mai Whelan, Research Fellow, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Brooke-Mai's expertise is in brain injury rehabilitation. She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as the International Journal of Neuroscience, and contributed chapters to many edited works.

SECTION A: INTRODUCTION.

1. Subcortical Involvement in Speech and Language: An
Introduction and Historical Perspective.

2. Neuroanatomy and Functional Neurology of the Subcortical
Region.

SECTION B: SUBCORTICAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS.

3. Models of Subcortical Participation in Language.

4. Language Disorders Associated with Striatocapsular and
Thalamic Lesions.

5. Pallidal and Thalamic Involvement in Language: Evidence from
Stereotactic Surgical Studies.

6. Role of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Language.

7. Influence of the Cerebellum on Language Function.

8. Degenerative Subcortical Syndromes: Aetiology, Clinical
Features, Medical Treatment and Associated Language Disorders.

9. Assessment and Treatment of Subcortical Language
Disorders.

SECTION C: SUBCORTICAL SPEECH DISORDERS.

10. Role of the Subcortical Structures in Speech Motor
Control.

11. Dysarthria Associated with Subcortical Pathologies.

12. Subcortical Dysarthrias: Assessment and Treatment.