Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition: Studies of Normal Aging and Brain Damage - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475784228 ISBN 13: 9781475784220

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Language in Healthy Adults. Neural Change, Cognitive Reserve and Behavioral Compensation in Rapid Encoding and Memory for Spoken Language in Adult Aging; A. Wingfield, et al. Factors Underlying Comprehension of Accented English; M. Goral, et al. Language in Brain Damage: Dementia. Word and Pseudoword Repetition in Alzheimer's Disease; M.-C. Goldblum, et al. Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease; D. Caplan, G. Waters. Writing Impairments in Alzheimer's Disease; G. Glosser, V.W. Henderson. Language in Brain Damage: Aphasia. Neurobehavioral Models for Aphasia Rehabilitation; N. Helm-Estabrooks. Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy: New Concepts for Aphasic Individuals and Their Partners; A.L. Holland. Neuroimaging in Severe Aphasia and Outcome Following Treatment with the Nonverbal, Computer-Assisted Visual Communication Program, C-ViC; M.A. Naeser, et al. Combinatorial Operations in Sentence Comprehension; E. Zurif, M. Piñango. Primary Progressive Aphasia: Dissociation of the Loss of Syntax and Semantics in a Biologically Determined Brain Degeneration; A. Kertesz. Pharmacotherapy of Aphasia; Y. Tanaka, D.L. Bachman. Understanding Cognitive Functioning Through Brain Damage. The Neural Basis of Working Memory: Evidence from Neuropsychological, Pharmacological and Neuroimaging Studies; M. D'Esposito. Language Functions in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence for a Neurochemistry of Language; P. McNamara, R. Durso. Asymmetries of Brain Function in Alcoholism: Relationship to Aging; M. Oscar-Berman, H.E. Schendan. Cognitive Perspectives on Humor Comprehension after Brain Injury; H. Brownell, A. Stringfellow. Anosognosia; K.M. Heilman, et al. DoctorFrançase-Study of Deep Dyslexia; A.R. Lecours, et al. Dissociating Speed from Automaticity in the Stroop Task: Evidence from a Case of Progressive Posterior Cortical Atrophy; K.C. Lindfield, et al. The Role of Memory in Estimating Time: A Neuropsychological Analysis; M. Kinsbourne. Neurobehavioral Assessment. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease: Assessment and Management; S. McPherson, J. Cummings. Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia: An Update; N. Wolfe. Validation of the Neurobehavioral Evaluation System (NES) in Patients with Focal Brain Damage; R. Diamond, et al. Neurology of Aging; J.E. Knoefel, J.C. Adair. Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475784228
• ISBN 13: 9781475784220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Connor Lisa Tabor, Obler Loraine K