Cognitive deficit and aphasia – a challenging diagnosis
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Cognitive deficit and aphasia--a challenging diagnosis.
O ne of the greatest challenges in cognitive neurology is to determine severity of cognitive impairment in patients with aphasia. Most of the cognitive evaluation is performed through language assessment; lesions causing aphasia can be spread in some different brain areas by committing different networks and, consequently , different cognitive domains. Otherwise, verbal based evaluations could ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20150159