Language and epilepsy / / Yvan Lebrun and Franco Fabbro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019248503321
• Autore: Lebrun Yvan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Whurr, 2002
• ISBN: 9786612342561; 9780470059913; 0470059915; 9780470698594; 0470698594; 9781282342569; 1282342568; 9780470699195; 0470699191; 9780585485409; 0585485402
• 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-