Language Disorders
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: The aims of this study were (a) to locate the breakpoints of a balanced translocation (7;13) within a mother (B) and daughter (T); (b) to describe the language and cognitive skills of B and T; and (c) to compare this profile with affected ... Read more...

Association of surgically acquired motor and language deficits on overall survival after resection of glioblastoma multiforme.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Balancing the benefits of extensive tumor resection with the consequence of potential postoperative deficits remains a challenge in malignant astrocytoma surgery. Although studies have suggested that increasing extent of resection may ... Read more...

Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Communication problems are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but instruments to assess these symptoms are limited. Our objective was to create a new scale, based on the language subscale of the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Language Disorders'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of surgically acquired motor and language deficits on overall survival after resection of glioblastoma multiforme. 30 Aug 2009
• Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment effects of Memantine on language in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• [Advances of studies on acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of language disorder in children with cerebral palsy] 30 Aug 2009
• Semantic inhibition impairment in mild cognitive impairment: a distinctive feature of upcoming cognitive decline? 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment of adult speech and language disorders. 24 Aug 2009
• A common mechanism in verb and noun naming deficits in Alzheimer's patients. 19 Aug 2009
• Cortical reorganization following anterior temporal lobectomy in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. 16 Aug 2009
• The cerebellum and language: evidence from patients with cerebellar degeneration. 4 Aug 2009
• N400 responses of children with primary language disorder: intervention effects. 3 Aug 2009
• Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk. 30 Jul 2009
• The expressive elaboration of imaginative narratives by children with specific language impairment. 30 Jul 2009
• The assessment of auditory function in CSWS: lessons from long-term outcome. 30 Jul 2009
• Specific language impairment versus Landau-Kleffner syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• CMIP and ATP2C2 modulate phonological short-term memory in language impairment. 28 Jul 2009
• Language in pediatric epilepsy. 12 Jul 2009
• [Language development impairment and trisomy 8 mosaicism] 29 Jun 2009
• Loss of language in early development of autism and specific language impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Operative techniques for gliomas and the value of extent of resection. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Language Disorders'

Definition: Conditions characterized by deficiencies of comprehension or expression of written and spoken forms of language. These include acquired and developmental disorders.

Descriptor UI: D007806

Alternative terms: Language Disorders; Language Disorder; Acquired Language Disorders; Acquired Language Disorder; Language Disorder, Acquired; Language Disorders, Acquired;

Related Mesh Headings: Speech Disorders;

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; C23.888.592.604.150.500;

History Note: 1967

Technical Notes: /ther: consider also LANGUAGE THERAPY; do not confuse with SPEECH DISORDERS: read differentiation of LANGUAGE & SPEECH under LANGUAGE; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS: see note there