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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.
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.
The book comprises a brief theoretical review and presents four
empirical studies relating to the question of whether brain areas
can be specialized for reading. This question has been studied
within the broader context of cognitive neuroscience, both in
patients with acquired disorders of reading (alexia), and with the
use of functional imaging techniques. An important account
postulates that an area in the mid-fusiform gyrus - the so-called
visual word form area - is specialized for reading (in literate
adults). Extant evidence for and against such specialization is
briefly reviewed and found inconclusive. The reported empirical
studies of patients with pure alexia, as well as a functional
imaging study of word and picture recognition, challenges the
notion of selectivity for word or letter processing in the visual
domain. However, the findings do suggest that reading may be
disproportionately affected by damage to more general purpose
visual recognition processes.
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