Search results for "Aphasia"
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Linguistic characteristics of genetic primary progressive aphasias: a retrospective study of 27 cases carrying GRN and c9orf72 mutations
2018
IF 4.621; International audience
Preserved knowledge maps of countries: Implications for the organisation of semantic memory
2004
We describe two patients with selectively preserved knowledge of the category of countries. Following a series of cerebra infarcts, patient DB presented with severe perceptual impairment, including dense apperceptive agnosia, prosopagnosia, an topographical agnosia. Despite these deficits, he could effortlessly name countries from their outline maps. Patient WH, who suffered from semantic dementia, had severe naming and comprehension difficulties, with extremely sparse residual semantic knowledge. Remarkably, the category of countries was preserved. First, we argue that, for both patients, this category preservation occurs at a semantic level. Second, we discuss our findings in the context …
Communicative guide for key conversational partners in the context of 'afasic conversation'
2005
Con este trabajo presentamos una Guía comunicativa diseñada para los interlocutores-clave (Whitworth, Perkins y Lesser 1997) que participan en conversaciones donde se incluye algún hablante con afasia. La necesidad de este tipo de guías surgió durante la elaboración del corpus PerLA ("PERcepción, Lenguaje y Afasia"), iniciado en 2000 en el área de Lingüística General de la UVEG. Presentamos algunos trabajos anteriores que abordan el tema de los interlocutores, como el Protocolo Pragmático diseñado por Carol Prutting y Diane Kirchner, el Entrenamiento conversacional de Audrey Holland, y la Terapia de Conversación Asistida de Aura Kagan. Los datos confirman que en estas situaciones ambos tipo…
A diffusion model account of normal and impaired readers.
2004
Acquired aphasics and dyslexics with even very profound word reading impairments have been shown to perform relatively well on the lexical decision task (e.g., Buchanan, Hildebrandt, & MacKinnon, 1999), but direct contrasts with unimpaired participants data is often complicated by extremely long reaction times for patient data. The dissociation between lexical decision and word naming performance shown by these patients is of theoretical importance, and here we present an analysis of processing underlying the lexical decision task. We are able to determine what aspects of performance are affected by acquired aphasics in the lexical decision task. We fit lexical decision data from aphasic pa…
“Accent issue”: foreign accent syndrome following ischemic stroke
2019
Background: Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is arare syndrome associated with altered speech rhythm and prosody, which listeners perceive as foreign; cerebrovascular accidents, tumors and multiple sclerosis are reported as possible causes of FAS. The pathophysiology of FAS is not yet understood. Case presentation: A 68-year-old Italian man was admitted to the EmergencyDepartment for non-fluent aphasia and dysarthria. Computed tomography (CT) scan did not show abnormalities; the patient was treated with systemic thrombolysis. A repeated brain CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed an infarct in the left primary motor cortex and mild extension to cortico-subcortical frontal regions. …
Il clitico soggetto di terza persona al in friulano centrale. Proposta per una nuova analisi
2018
This chapter discusses the syntactic properties of the subject clitici pronoun 'al' ('he.CL') in Central Friulian. The description is based on a comparison with Western Friulian, in which the clitic cluster 'a l' occurs. We show that the Central Friulian 'al' is syntactically different and should be analysed as a single clitic. In the cases in which 'al' does not occur (this happens when another clitic pronoun is present), or when it occurs in the form -l (only after negation: 'nol' 'not=he.CL) is due to phonology. Our proposal is also strengthened by considering data from aphasia: aphasic speakers of Central Friulian seem to conceive the 'al' as a single clitic.
On Optic Aphasia and Visual Agnosia
1991
Abstract The following is a translation from a paper by Freund published in two parts almost exactly 100 years ago. It is based on a talk he gave on February 23rd, 1888 at a meeting, chaired by Wernicke, of the Society of East German Psychiatrists at Breslau. A brief report of the proceedings of the meeting appeared in the same year under the title Einige Grenzfalle zwischen Aphasie und Seelenblindheit (Some borderline cases between aphasia and agnosia) (Freund, 1888). This is presumably why the first part, published in 1889, has the heading II before its title Ueber optische Aphasie und Seelenblindheit.
Lateralized periodic discharges in insular status epilepticus: A case report of a periodic EEG pattern associated with ictal manifestation
2019
Highlights • Focal status epilepticus has to be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with aphasia, even in the absence of previous history of epilepsy. • Aphasia can be a rare presenting sign of insular lobe epilepsy. • Lateralized periodic discharges could represent an EEG ictal pattern.
Assessing natural metalinguistic skills in people with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia
2019
Abstract Objective The aim of this paper is to assess whether the use of natural metalinguistic skills can be used to differentiate linguistic-communicative profiles of people with dementia (Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia in the behavioural and primary progressive aphasia variants) in the earliest stages of the disease. Method A sample of 180 people was selected. Sixty had Alzheimer’s disease, 20 had frontotemporal dementia of the behavioural variant, and 40 had frontotemporal dementia of the primary progressive aphasia variant (20 had non-fluent primary progressive aphasia and 20 had semantic dementia). The control group was composed of 60 healthy people with ages, gender,…
Different coping patterns in the families of aphasic people
1987
Abstract Changes occurring in families as a result of aphasia are important to study as part of the rehabilitation process. It has been shown that the most common attitude in the families of aphasic people seems to be overprotection which increases mutual dependence between spouses (Biorn-Hansen 1957, Malone, Ptacek and Malone 1970, Kinsella and Duffy 1980). It has been suggested that behind this overprotective attitude are. perhaps, latent guilt feelings or prevalent problems and anxiety (Borden 1%2. Overs and Belknap 1967, Buck 1968. Mykyta, Bowling, Nelson and Lloyd 1976). Generalizations about coping mechanisms offamilies are difficult to make especially from small regional samples or, …