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Alexia - Diagnosis, Treatment and Theory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Alexia - Diagnosis, Treatment and Theory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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This book is a comprehensive review of the main acquired disorders
of reading: hemianopic, pure and central alexia. The authors review
the diagnostic criteria for each of the different types of
disorder, and the efficacy of the therapeutic studies that have
attempted to remediate them. The different theoretical models of
adult reading, which largely rest on how the reading system
responds to injury, are also discussed and evaluated. Focal brain
injury caused by stroke and brain tumors are discussed in depth as
are the effects of dementia on reading. This book starts with a
chapter on normal reading, followed by chapters on hemianopic
alexia, pure alexia and central alexia, each structured in the same
way, with: a description of the condition; a historical review of
cases to date; psychophysics; consideration of the causative
lesions; evidence from functional imaging studies on patients and,
most importantly, a review of the evidence base for treating each
condition. Finally, there is a chapter on how patient data has
informed how we think about reading. Alexia: Diagnosis, Treatment
and Theory is aimed at neuropsychologists (both experimental and
clinical), neurologists, speech therapists and others who deal with
patients whose reading has been affected by an acquired brain
injury, as well as interested students studying language disorders.
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