Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) manifests as memory impairment in the absence of
dementia and progresses to Alzheimer's disease (AD) at a rate of around 15% per annum …

During the past 2 decades the collaboration across disciplines and the methodologic and
conceptual advances of contemporary neuroscience have brought about a substantial …

The production of verbs in an action naming test and in spontaneous speech was evaluated
in 16 aphasic patients: eight agrammatics and eight anomics. Action naming was also …

Although people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have severe problems with
pragmatic aspects of language, little is known about their pragmatic reasoning. We carried …

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the
assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore …

The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology gives a
thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an …

OBJECTIVE Type 2 diabetes is known to be associated with decrements in memory and
executive functions and information-processing speed. It is less clear, however, at which …

Background: Aphasia has very serious consequences for speech production and, hence, for
communication in daily life. Nevertheless, in the standard diagnostic procedures and in …

Abstract Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) is a language production therapy for severely non-
fluent aphasic patients using melodic intoning and rhythm to restore language. Although …

Preservation of cognition is an important outcome measure in eloquent area glioma surgery.
Glioma patients may have pre-operative deficits in one or more cognitive domains which …