CURRENT CONCEPTS - APHASIA
CURRENT CONCEPTS - APHASIA
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm197103252841206
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
GESCHWIND, N
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作者:
GESCHWIND, N
APHASIA, a common, distressing, and often permanent aftereffect of neurologic disease, has received little attention in recent years not only in general medical publications but even in the neurologic literature. This neglect has resulted from the idea that the aphasias are exotic disorders, of little practical value to the clinician, and not susceptible to experimental analysis, and that discussion of them demands a penchant for abstruse philosophical speculation. Limitations of space preclude dealing with all these misconceptions, and this article will concentrate only on the practical clinical uses of a knowledge of aphasia.Most clinicians have been taught an apparently . . .