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Previous Volume 336:143-144 January 9, 1997 Number 2 Next

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By D. Frank Benson and Alfredo Ardila. 441 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-508934-0.

Since Broca's early attempts to correlate changes in speech and language with injury to specific regions of the left hemisphere, aphasia has been the flagship syndrome of behavioral neurology. This is the case partly because no other changes in higher cognitive functions have shown such consistent and predictable relations with the underlying brain injuries. Nevertheless, despite Pierre Marie's effort to simplify the classification of aphasia syndromes, a complex and sometimes intimidating diagnostic system has evolved over the years. Internists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, and other practitioners are often reluctant to fit patients' speech and language symptoms to a specific aphasia syndrome. This . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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