Aphasia - Diagnosis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Extracommunicative functions of language: verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments.

30 Jul 2009 In addition to its communicative functions, language has been argued to have a variety of extracommunicative functions, as assessed by its causal involvement in putatively nonlinguistic tasks. In the present work, I argue that language may be ... Read more...

Automated MRI-based classification of primary progressive aphasia variants.

4 Jun 2009 Degeneration of language regions in the dominant hemisphere can result in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a clinical syndrome characterized by progressive deficits in speech and/or language function. Recent studies have identified three variants ... Read more...

Epilepsy-aphasia syndromes.

30 May 2009 The combination of aphasia and epileptic seizures is characteristic for Landau-Kleffner syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder. These disorders affect young children with previously normal psychomotor development, causing profound regression ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Aphasia - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Extracommunicative functions of language: verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments. 30 Jul 2009
• Comment on "Aphasic or amnesic status epilepticus detected on PET but not EEG". 30 Jul 2009
• Automated MRI-based classification of primary progressive aphasia variants. 4 Jun 2009
• Epilepsy-aphasia syndromes. 30 May 2009
• Communication outcome after stroke: a new measure of the carer's perspective. 27 May 2009
• Neuropsychological decline in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a longitudinal analysis. 29 Apr 2009
• Parallel recovery in a bilingual aphasic: a neurolinguistic and fMRI study. 29 Apr 2009
• A linguistic communication measure for monitoring changes in Chinese aphasic narrative production. 30 Mar 2009
• [On the subject of aphemia] 30 Mar 2009
• Thrombolysis in stroke mimics: frequency, clinical characteristics, and outcome. 20 Jan 2009
• Concepts and categories: a cognitive neuropsychological perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• Co-constructed talk in the conversations of people with dysarthria and aphasia. 29 Nov 2008
• Are the same phoneme and lexical layers used in speech production and comprehension? A case-series test of model of aphasic speech production. 12 Nov 2008
• [Aphasia in practice--recent progress] 30 Oct 2008
• Cross linguistic aphasia testing: the Portuguese version of the Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT). 30 Oct 2008
• Using lexical familiarity judgments to assess verbally mediated intelligence in aphasia. 30 Oct 2008
• [Variability in the semantic errors produced by brain-injured patients] 30 Oct 2008
• Semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits in aphasia: evidence from well-defined categories. 7 Oct 2008
• [De Seze et al. criteria: application to a series of 14 patients presenting a first severe acute demyelinating event] 3 Oct 2008
• Syntactic-semantic relationships in the mental lexicon of aphasic patients. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Aphasia'

Definition: A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.

Descriptor UI: D001037

Alternative terms: Aphasia; Logasthenia; Logasthenias; Logagnosia; Logagnosias; Logamnesia; Logamnesias; Alogia; Alogias; Anepia; Anepias; Aphasia, Acquired; Acquired Aphasia; Aphasia, Ageusic; Ageusic Aphasia; Ageusic Aphasias; Aphasias, Ageusic; Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory; Aphasias, Auditory Discriminatory; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias; Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory; Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory; Aphasia, Commisural; Aphasias, Commisural; Commisural Aphasia; Commisural Aphasias; Aphasia, Functional; Aphasias, Functional; Functional Aphasia; Functional Aphasias; Aphasia, Global; Aphasias, Global; Global Aphasia; Global Aphasias; Dysphasia, Global; Dysphasias, Global; Global Dysphasia; Global Dysphasias; Aphasia, Syntactical; Aphasias, Syntactical; Syntactical Aphasia; Syntactical Aphasias; Aphasia, Intellectual; Aphasias, Intellectual; Intellectual Aphasia; Intellectual Aphasias; Aphasia, Mixed; Aphasias, Mixed; Mixed Aphasia; Mixed Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Ictal; Aphasia, Post Ictal; Aphasias, Post-Ictal; Post-Ictal Aphasia; Post-Ictal Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Traumatic; Aphasia, Post Traumatic; Aphasias, Post-Traumatic; Post-Traumatic Aphasia; Post-Traumatic Aphasias; Aphasia, Semantic; Aphasias, Semantic; Semantic Aphasia; Semantic Aphasias; Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon; Dejerine Lichtheim Phenomenon; Phenomenon, Dejerine-Lichtheim; Lichtheim's Sign; Lichtheim Sign; Lichtheims Sign; Sign, Lichtheim's; Dysphasia; Aphasia, Progressive; Aphasias, Progressive; Progressive Aphasia; Progressive Aphasias; Aphasia, Graphomotor; Aphasias, Graphomotor; Graphomotor Aphasia; Graphomotor Aphasias;

Related Mesh Headings: Landau-Kleffner Syndrome;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800.100; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics