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Aphasia

Aphasia

Aphasia may be defined as a total or partial loss of the use or understanding of language, the receptive and expressive organs of speech remaining intact. Since speech is an intellectual function, dependent upon the physiological activity of the underlying neural arrangements, the component units of which have an anatomical localization, the problem of aphasia may be considered from the psychol...

Exploring Aphasia in Kalhori

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, h...

Normative data for the Brazilian population in the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination: influence of schooling.

In Neurolinguistics, the use of diagnostic tests developed in other countries can create difficulties in the interpretation of results due to cultural, demographic and linguistic differences. In a country such as Brazil, with great social contrasts, schooling exerts a powerful influence on the abilities of normal individuals. The objective of the present study was to identify the influence of s...

The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination-Spanish version: the influence of demographic variables.

The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Battery (BDAE) is one of the most widely used aphasia tests worldwide. Information about general population performance, however, is limited. This paper analyzes the effects of gender, age, socioeconomic status (SES), academic achievement, and occupation on the BDAE Spanish version. The BDAE was administered to a randomized sample of 156 occupationally ...