Aphasiology - G. Albyn Davis

Aphasiology

Disorders and Clinical Practice

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2006 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-48099-9 (ISBN)
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Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice, 2/eoffers a uniquely balanced and comprehensive presentation of aphasia, encompassing both theoretical study and clinical practice.

 

Written in a highly accessible style, this text carefully explains and illustrates key paradigms in research and treatment. The author uses tables to summarize essential points and to provide historical overviews.

Structured according to a course outline, the book begins with etiology and moves quickly to clinical assessment. It teaches diagnostic thinking with respect to the relationships between symptoms and hidden impairments in cognitive terms. This thinking is illustrated with research as well as more explicitly with assessments and treatments. Through this approach, a future clinician should acquire an appreciation for the scientific investigation that supports a clinical discipline.

 

The Second Edition features updated information on many topics, such as functional assessments and treatments (including ethnography and outcome measures) and medical aspects and treatments keep the text current and competitive in the field.  It also includes a new chapter on dementias supplements current chapters on other cognitive disorders (right hemisphere dysfunction and traumatic brain injury). Each of these chapters includes additional information on rehabilitation as well as up-to-date information on current research.  The content has been reorganized within and between chapters to maximize readability and ease of use as a course text.  Psycholinguistics background has been restructured to improve efficiency and readability of the text.  Chapter 6 on “Special Investigations” has been eliminated from this edition and its topics have been redistributed, improving the overall flow of the text.

Preface.

 

1. INTRODUCTION TO ACQUIRED LANGUAGE DISORDERS

 

Diagnosing aphasia

Describing aphasia

Explaining aphasia

Treating aphasia

 

2. CAUSES OF THE APHASIAS

 

Stroke

Ischemic stroke

Hemorrhage

Tumor

Focal cortical atrophy

Clinical neurological examination

Clinical brain imaging

Localization and dissociation

Clinical syndromes of aphasia

Exceptional aphasias

Summary and conclusions

 

3. CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS

 

The first visit

Diagnostic decisions

Standard testing

Psychometric constraints:  The PICA

Diagnosing syndromes:  The Boston Exam

Numerical classification:  The WAB

Diagnosing modular impairment:  PALPA

Brief tests and bedside screening

Supplemental tests

Notes on interpretation

Martin Exeter’s initial report

Summary and conclusions

 

4.  INVESTIGATING APHASIA IN GENERAL

 

Basic research in clinical aphasiology

Word processing

Sentence comprehension

Explaining sentence comprehension deficit

Object naming

Productive word-finding

Reading words

Aphasia in bilingual individuals

Summary and conclusions

 

5. INVESTIGATING SYMPTOMS AND SYNDROMES

 

Agrammatism

Asyntactic comprehension

Anomic aphasia

Conduction aphasia

Wernicke’s aphasia

Universal aphasia

Martin Exeter’s aphasia

Summary and conclusions

 

6. DISCOURSE AND COMMUNICATION

 

Pragmatic language

Discourse and text

Discourse comprehension with aphasia

Aphasic discourse production

Conversation

Nonverbal modalities

Overall functional status

Assessment of functional communication

Assessing life participation

Martin Exeter’s functional skills

Summary and conclusions

 

7. RECOVERY AND PROGNOSIS

 

Stroke and functional outcomes

Measuring recovery of language

Approaches to prognosis

Type of stroke

Severity of impairment

Type of impairment

Other factors

Making the targeted prognosis

Bilingual recovery

Explaining recovery

Martin Exeter’s recovery

Summary and conclusions

 

8. PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE RESTORATION

 

Cognitive stimulation

Programmed stimulation

Measurement and generalization

Word-finding

Computer-assisted treatment

Group treatment

Efficacy of standard aphasia treatment

Medical treatments

Health care topics

Notes from the clinic

Summary and conclusions

 

9. TARGETING SPECIFIC DISORDERS

 

Studying individual cases

Agrammatic production: Empirical treatments

Agrammatic production: Theory-driven treatments

Asyntactic comprehension

Wernicke’s aphasia

Conduction aphasia

Anomic or mild aphasia

Reading impairments

Summary and conclusion

 

10. FUNCTIONAL THERAPEUTICS

 

Philosophy: The clinical-functional gap

Functional stimulation

Compensatory behaviors

Interactive therapies

Life participation

The challenge of severe or global aphasia

Psychosocial adjustment

Documenting functional outcome

Martin’s conclusion

Summary and conclusions

 

 

11. RIGHT HEMISPHERE DISORDERS

 

Clinical neuropsychology

Awareness of deficits

Left neglect and reading

Visuospatial orientation

Constructional skills

Problems with sound

Emotion and prosody

Speaker meaning

Discourse

What is RHD syndrome?

Clinical assessment

Treatment

Recovery and outcomes

Summary and conclusions

 

12. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

 

Head trauma

The trauma unit

Neuropsychological assessment

Attention

Memory

Executive functions

Personality and behavior

Insight (awareness)

Language

Pragmatics and discourse

Cognitive rehabilitation

Recovery and outcomes

Summary and conclusions

 

13. DEMENTIAS

 

Diagnosis and assessment of dementia

Alzheimer’s disease

Other causes of dementia

Dementia of Alzheimer’s type

Language with Alzheimer’s disease

Medical treatments

Communicative assessment

Cognitive-communicative interventions

Summary and conclusions

 

 

References.

 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.10.2006
Sprache englisch
Maße 195 x 246 mm
Gewicht 800 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Logopädie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete HNO-Heilkunde
ISBN-10 0-205-48099-3 / 0205480993
ISBN-13 978-0-205-48099-9 / 9780205480999
Zustand Neuware
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