Beschreibung:
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.
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.