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The behavioral and cognitive neurology of stroke /
Provides a comprehensive review of the neuropsychological deficits related to stroke.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Evaluation of cognitive and behavioral disorders in the stroke unit
- Introduction
- Difficulty in evaluating cognitive functions in the stroke unit
- The necessity of steadily evaluating cognitive functions in acute stroke
- Cognitive behavioral disorders in the stroke unit
- Clinical approach of right hemispheric strokes at different steps of evolution: The example of spatial neglect
- Clinical approach to left hemispheric strokes: The example of aphasia
- Clinical approach to posterior strokes: The example of visual agnosia
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- 2 Motor and gestural disorders: Abnormal movement and motor behavior
- Introduction
- Transient movement disorders
- Hemiballism-hemichorea
- Asterixis
- Paroxysmal dyskinesia
- Permanent movement disorders
- Dystonia
- Thalamic tremor
- Vascular parkinsonism
- Vascular generalized chorea
- REFERENCES
- 3 Gestural apraxia
- Introduction
- Approach to gestural apraxia in clinical practice
- Bilateral limb apraxias: Ideomotor apraxia and ideational apraxia
- Unilateral limb apraxias: Limb kinetic apraxia and callosal apraxia
- Unimodal apraxias: The example of optic ataxia
- Apraxia testing
- Gestural apraxia in strokes
- Left and right hemisphere contributions to IMA in strokes
- Cortical and subcortical contributions to IMA in stroke
- Parietal cortex and other cortical contributions to IMA in stroke
- Recovery and rehabilitation of gestural apraxia after stroke
- Long-lasting apraxia: a critical factor for recovering autonomy in everyday life
- Apraxia therapy: Usefulness of selective programs
- Neural substrates of action: a distributed network where the parietal lobe may be an interface
- REFERENCES
- 4 Aphasia in stroke
- Introduction
- Broca's aphasia, expressive aphasia, motor aphasias
- Broca's aphasia
- Global aphasia
- Pure motor aphasia
- Transcortical motor aphasia
- Wernicke's aphasia, sensory aphasia
- Wernicke's aphasia
- Pure word deafness
- Neologistic jargon
- Conduction aphasia
- Transcortical sensory aphasia
- Isolation syndrome
- Anomic aphasia
- Subcortical stroke aphasias
- Alexia and agraphia
- Recovery from aphasic stroke syndromes
- Functional activation of language
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- 5 Acute vascular aphasia
- Introduction
- Aphasia at the acute stage of stroke
- Characteristics of acute aphasia
- Clinical radiological correlation
- Deep MCA and thalamic strokes
- Uncommon localization
- Other clinical entities mimicking stroke aphasia
- Functional imaging techniques
- Outcome
- Assessment and management at the acute stage
- Speech and language therapy
- REFERENCES
- 6 Dysarthria
- Introduction
- Speech production
- Classification of dysarthria
- Evaluation of dysarthria
- Varieties of vascular dysarthria
- Spastic dysarthria
- Unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria
- Ataxic dysarthria
- Flaccid dysarthria
- Treatments
- REFERENCES
- 7 Alexia and agraphia in acute and chronic stroke
- Introduction
- Presentations of disordered reading and writing
- Impaired spatial attention: Neglect dyslexia
- Impaired access to ort.