Acquired epileptic aphasia, or Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), once thought to be a rare syndrome, may occur more frequently in the pediatric population than once thought. This syndrome is typically characterized by an abrupt or gradual loss of language ability and inattentiveness to sound, sometimes called auditory agnosia, with onset during the first 5 years of life. This interruption in comm...

Transcortical motor aphasia (TCMA) is an acquired impairment of language expression that occurs following neurologic damage that affects left frontal cortex and spares perisylvian regions. In some individuals with TCMA, verbal expression is rendered nonfluent due to difficulty spontaneously initiating and elaborating upon verbal messages. Nonfluency arises from impaired activation of intended m...

Our age, building around the World Wide Web, is called the era of information. This usually means simple access to news, theoretical or practical knowledge in science and engineering. But, less in the forefront, new ways of representation, embodiment of information give a very powerful hand in treatment of special patients. Recognising these offerings of modern information technology, a group o...

BACKGROUND Orbitofrontal abnormalities are associated with poor impulse control, altered sexual behavior, and sociopathy. OBJECTIVE To describe a patient with acquired pedophilia and a right orbitofrontal tumor who was unable to inhibit sexual urges despite preserved moral knowledge. DESIGN Case report. RESULTS The patient displayed impulsive sexual behavior with pedophilia, marked constr...

The aims of this study are to compare quantitative and qualitative differences for noun/verb retrieval across language-impaired groups, examine naming errors with reference to psycholinguistic models of word processing, and shed light on the nature of the naming deficit as well as determine relevant group commonalities and differences. This includes an attempt to establish whether error types d...

Patients with conduction aphasia have been characterized as having a short-term memory deficit that leads to relative difficulty on span and repetition tasks. It has also been observed that these same patients often get the gist of what is said to them, even if they are unable to repeat the information verbatim. To study this phenomenon experimentally, patients with conduction aphasia and left ...