Speech and Language Disorders Associated with Subcortical Pathology.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of speech and language disorders arising from pathological processes involving the subcortical structures of the brain. It gives an understanding of these disorders in terms of their neuropathological basis, clinical symptomatology and prognosis. A full disc...
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Speech and Language Disorders Associated with Subcortical Pathology; Contents; 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: A role for the subthalamic nucleus in language.
