Aphasia, a devastating disorder resulting from stroke, degenerative disease, or traumatic
brain injury, profoundly affects the individual's ability to use and understand language. This …

What is immediately clear when meeting individuals with acquired brain damage is that the
patterns of communication impairments vary in remarkable ways among these individuals …

This book focuses on two fundamental aspects of brain-language relations: one concerns
the neural organization of language in the healthy brain; the other challenges current …

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive
and interactive eBook, online video segments, student practice activities and assessments, a …

The main objective of this book is the study of aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation.
Throughout this volume, aphasia is approached from a variety of perspectives, including …

In the last 25 years, characterization of aphasia has shifted from descriptions of the
language tasks that are impaired by brain damage to identification of the disrupted cognitive …

Recent advances in neuroimaging contribute to a new insights regarding brain-behavior
relationships and expand understanding of the functional neuroanatomy of language …

The term aphasia is commonly used with the language impairments that develop in a range
of dementias and other progressive conditions. The term also includes what is most often …

This article explores how consideration of acquired speech and language disorders from the
perspective of neuroscience permits new insights into the content and design of therapy for …

Aphasia therapy, while demonstrably successful, has been limited by its primary focus on
language, with relatively less attention paid to nonlinguistic factors (cognitive, affective …