Jumping to conclusions: "Language loss" versus "language impairment"

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 831-837

  Wales, Roger ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dementia of the Alzheimer type, temporal lobe epilepsy; Language dysfunction; Language loss; Language organ

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WORKING MEMORY; CLASSIFICATION; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34248635401     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70425-8     Document Type: Article

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