Neuroscience
Available for streaming and as a podcast, from WNYC:
"Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love"
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22 April 2011
WNYC Leonard Lopate Show
"Diane Ackerman talks about her husband, Paul West’s, stroke and long recovery. He was afflicted with aphasia—loss of language—and Diane, frustrated with traditional therapies, relied on her scientific understanding of language and the brain to guide Paul back to the world of words. Her book One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing is an account of stroke, aphasia, and recovery, as well a love story."
- Speaking Of Aphasia...
Aphasia Speaks A 34-year-old physical therapist, Kristen, who suffered a stroke in 2008 relates her journey and rebuilds her life with Aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the language center of the brain and is caused by stroke, brain...
- Alzheimer's Disease: Jeanne Murray Walker Interview On Wnyc's Leonard Lopate Show
The author speaks about her new book "The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's" The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC 06 September 2013Listen to the interview...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia Screening For Stroke Patients
Validation of the language component of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination - Revised (ACE-R) as a screening tool for aphasia in stroke patients. Australas J Ageing. 2011 Sep;30(3):156-8 Authors: Gaber TA, Parsons F, Gautam V Abstract Aim: ...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia And The Assessment Of Depression
Townend E, Brady M, McLaughlan K. A Systematic Evaluation of the Adaptation of Depression Diagnostic Methods for Stroke Survivors Who Have Aphasia. Stroke. 2007 Oct 11; [Epub ahead of print] From the NMAHP Research Unit, Buchannan House, Glasgow Caledonian...
- Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia Screening
Salter K, Jutai J, Foley N, Hellings C, & Teasell R. (2006). Identification of aphasia post stroke: A review of screening assessment tools. Brain Injury, 20(6),, 559-568. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph's...
Neuroscience
Aphasia: Caregiver Account
Available for streaming and as a podcast, from WNYC:
"Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love"
Listen
22 April 2011
WNYC Leonard Lopate Show
"Diane Ackerman talks about her husband, Paul West’s, stroke and long recovery. He was afflicted with aphasia—loss of language—and Diane, frustrated with traditional therapies, relied on her scientific understanding of language and the brain to guide Paul back to the world of words. Her book One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing is an account of stroke, aphasia, and recovery, as well a love story."
- Speaking Of Aphasia...
Aphasia Speaks A 34-year-old physical therapist, Kristen, who suffered a stroke in 2008 relates her journey and rebuilds her life with Aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the language center of the brain and is caused by stroke, brain...
- Alzheimer's Disease: Jeanne Murray Walker Interview On Wnyc's Leonard Lopate Show
The author speaks about her new book "The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's" The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC 06 September 2013Listen to the interview...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia Screening For Stroke Patients
Validation of the language component of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination - Revised (ACE-R) as a screening tool for aphasia in stroke patients. Australas J Ageing. 2011 Sep;30(3):156-8 Authors: Gaber TA, Parsons F, Gautam V Abstract Aim: ...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia And The Assessment Of Depression
Townend E, Brady M, McLaughlan K. A Systematic Evaluation of the Adaptation of Depression Diagnostic Methods for Stroke Survivors Who Have Aphasia. Stroke. 2007 Oct 11; [Epub ahead of print] From the NMAHP Research Unit, Buchannan House, Glasgow Caledonian...
- Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia Screening
Salter K, Jutai J, Foley N, Hellings C, & Teasell R. (2006). Identification of aphasia post stroke: A review of screening assessment tools. Brain Injury, 20(6),, 559-568. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph's...