Juergen Tesak, Chris Code

Milestones in the History of Aphasia

Theories and Protagonists

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Produktbeschreibung

This book surveys the history of aphasia from the earliest mentions of speech and language impairments in ancient times, medieval attempts to understand aphasia, and the momentous events of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries up to the development of modern cognitive neuroscience. It traces the development of theory about and understanding of aphasia, and the role of significant individuals in this history. It aims to be accessible to undergraduates and postgraduates, researchers, teachers and clinicians in psychology, speech and language pathology and therapy, neurology and linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781841695136
• ISBN-10: 1841695130
• Artikelnr.: 23151368

Autorenporträt

Juergen Tesak was Professor of Logopaedie at the Europa Fachhochschule Fresenius (EFF), Darmstadt, Germany. Chris Code is Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter and Foundation Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Hon) at the University of Sydney. He is also National Advisor on Aphasia for Speakability (www.speakability.org.uk), Patron of Aphasia Now and co-founding Editor of the international Psychology Press journal Aphasiology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. The Older History of Aphasia. 1. Aphasia in Antiquity and the
Middle Ages. 2. From the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century. 3. The
Nineteenth Century until 1880: The Birth of a Science. 4. Wernicke and the
Later Nineteenth Century. 5. The Twentieth Century until the Second World
War. 6. From the Second World War to Geschwind: Neoclassicism and the
Return to Localisation. Part 2. Aphasia to the Millennium. 7. The Rise of
Linguistic Aphasia. 8. Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language and the Rise
of Cognitive Neuroscience. 9. Broca's Aphasia and Broca's Area: The Journey
from 1861 to 2005. 10. Beyond the Left Peri-Sylvian Language Area.