Immoral behaviour following brain damage: A review

Discourse Impairments Following Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: A Critical Review

Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech. Nonetheless, subtle language comprehension deficits can occur following unilateral RHD. In this article, we review the empirical record on discourse function following right hemisphere damage, as well as relevant work on non-brain dam...

Stuttering Following Acquired Brain Damage: A Review of the Literature.

Communication problems resulting from acquired brain damage are most frequently manifested as motor speech disorders such as dysarthria, syndromes of aphasia, and impairments of pragmatics. A much less common phenomenon is the onset of stuttering in adults who sustain a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other neurologic events. When stuttering occurs in association with neuropathology, precise...

Pharmacotherapy to Improve the Acquired Aphasia following Brain Damages: A Review Study

Background & Aim: Using pharmaceutical agents in treatment of aphasia has caught the attention of many neurologists and neuroscientists. This short review study has sought the role of pharmacotherapy in treatment of aphasia, a linguistic impairment after acquired brain lesions. The pharmacological principles and mechanisms related to the effects of drugs used in aphasia rehabilitation are point...

Socio-emotional behaviour following acquired brain injury

Progress Review: Hypoglycemic Brain Damage

The central question to be addressed in this review can be stated as "How does hypoglycemia kill neurons?" Initial research on hypoglycemk brain damage hi the 1930s was aimed at demonstrating the existence of any brain damage whatsoever due to insulin. Recent results indicate that uncomplicated hypoglycemia is capable of killing neurons in the brain. However, the mechanism does not appear to be...