Pharmacology and Aphasia
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Pharmacology and Aphasia

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Pharmacology and Aphasia

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About This Book

This book provides clinicians and researchers with the current state-of-the-art on the pharmacological treatment of aphasia. The focus is on the role of different pharmacological agents to improve aphasia associated with stroke and to attenuate language dissolution in degenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease and primary progressive aphasia. This book is the first one that addresses these topics. Leaders in the field provide tutorial reviews on how focal brain injury and degeneration impact on the normal the activity of different neurotransmitter systems and how drugs combined or not with rehabilitation can improve language and communication deficits. This is nicely illustrated by studies on single cases and case series describing the beneficial effects of interventions combining drugs with evidence-based rehabilitation techniques. Throughout the volume, future directions to refine testing aimed to detect gains in language and non-language cognitive deficits promoted by drug treatment are highlighted. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the rehabilitation of aphasia and related cognitive disorders.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Aphasiology.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317628293
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. 1. Cognitive enhancing drugs in aphasia: A vote for hope
  8. 2. Psycholinguistics of aphasia pharmacotherapy: Asking the right questions
  9. 3. Dopaminergic therapy in aphasia
  10. 4. A clinical study of the combined use of bromocriptine and speech and language therapy in the treatment of a person with aphasia
  11. 5. Massed sentence repetition training can augment and speed up recovery of speech production deficits in patients with chronic conduction aphasia receiving donepezil treatment
  12. 6. Neuroplasticity, neurotransmitters and new directions for treatment of anomia in Alzheimer disease
  13. 7. Effects of memantine treatment on language abilities and functional communication: A review of data
  14. Index