
Aphasia and Its Therapy
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
- Associationist Models
- Holistic or Noetic Models
- Norman Geschwind and Neoassociationism
- The Luria School
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 2. CLASSIFICATION OF THE APHASIAS
- Luria's Classification
- Neoassociationist Classification
- Aphasia Examinations
- Some Limits in the Neoassociationist Theory
- An Alternative Clinical Approach
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 3. APHASIA THERAPY FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE 1970s
- From World War I to World War II
- From World War II to the 1970s
- The Stimulation Approach
- The Behavior Modification Approach
- The Luria or Functional Reorganization Approach
- The Pragmatic Approach
- The Neurolinguistic Approach
- The Neoassociationist Approach
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 4. EFFICACY OF APHASIA THERAPY
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Clinical Studies without a Control Group
- Treatment Effect in Chronic Aphasics
- Treated versus Untreated Patients
- Different Therapeutic Methods and Different "Therapists" Compared
- Duration and Frequency/Intensity of Therapy
- Meta-analyses
- Group Studies and Single Case Studies
- A Historical Perspective
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 5. COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
- Assumptions
- Syndromes and Single Case Studies
- Associations and Dissociations
- Error Analysis
- Access and Storage Disorders
- The Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Syndromes
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 6. THE LEXICON
- Structure of the Lexical-Semantic System
- Internal Organization and Processing
- Locating the Functional Locus of Damage
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 7. COGNITIVE REHABILITATION
- Naming Disorders
- Sentence-Level Disorders
- Reading Disorders
- Writing Disorders
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 8. IN SEARCH OF A THEORY OF APHASIA THERAPY
- Functional Damage and the Normal Cognitive Structure
- For Which Functional Damages Is Improvement Possible?
- Neural Mechanisms
- Factors Influencing Recovery
- Learning
- Implementation
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 9. REHABILITATION OF LEXICAL AND SENTENCE DISORDERS
- Auditory Analysis System
- Abstract Letter Identification System
- Input Lexicons
- Semantic System
- Output Lexicons
- Output Buffers
- Conversion Rules
- Multiple Disorders
- Sentence Level
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 10. SEVERE APHASIA AND PRAGMATICS
- Patient Selection
- Pragmatics
- The Structure of Conversation
- Shared Knowledge and Context
- Propositional Content
- Rehabilitation
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 11. FINAL REMARKS
- Neglected Topics
- The Process of Therapy
- The Therapeutic Contract
- The Reality
- Conclusions
- APPENDIX 1. SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING AND CASUAL OBSERVATION: TWO APOLOGUES
- APPENDIX 2. SEMMELWEIS
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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- D
- E
- F
- G
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- M
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