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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876519503321

Autore

Lebrun Yvan

Titolo

Language and epilepsy / / Yvan Lebrun and Franco Fabbro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Whurr, 2002

ISBN

0-470-05991-5

9786612342561

0-470-69859-4

1-282-34256-8

0-470-69919-1

0-585-48540-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FabbroF

Disciplina

616.853

Soggetti

Epilepsy

Language disorders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Language and Epilepsy; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 The lexicon of epilepsy; Chapter 2 The names of epilepsy; Chapter 3 Ictal verbal behaviour; Chapter 4 Language-induced reflex epilepsy; Chapter 5 Stuttering and epilepsy; Chapter 6 Inter-ictal verbal behaviour; Chapter 7 Epilepsy and literary production; Chapter 8 The effect on language of surgery for intractable epilepsy; Chapter 9 Verbal behaviour during hemispheric anaesthetization and cortical electrostimulation; Chapter 10 Remediation of verbal disorders associated with epilepsy; Chapter 11 Conclusions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There are numerous books dealing with epilepsy but none of them is entirely devoted to the manifold relationships between language and epilepsy. The present monograph focuses on the verbal shortcomings, disorders, deviances, and peculiarities which may be observed in patients with epilepsy, and endeavors to uncover the links between the observed linguistic features and the disturbance of bio-electrical activity that characterizes epilepsy. It describes the many verbal impairments and involuntary verbal behaviours which may occur during epileptic seizures, depicts the various types of language-