Alexia : Diagnosis, Treatment and Theory
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39570
Alexander Leff, Randi Starrfelt.
--London:
Springer
, c2014.
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This book is a comprehensive review of the main acquired disorders of reading: hemianopic, pure and central alexia. The authors review the diagnostic criteria for each of the different types of disorder, and the efficacy of the therapeutic studies that have attempted to remediate them. The different theoretical models of adult reading, which largely rest on how the reading system responds to injury, are also discussed and evaluated. Focal brain injury caused by stroke and brain tumors are discu…
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- Author
- Leff, Alexander
- Other Authors
- Starrfelt, Randi
- Responsibility
- Alexander Leff, Randi Starrfelt
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 168 p. : 52 illus., 21 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781447155294
- 9781447155287 (print ed.)
- Abstract
- This book is a comprehensive review of the main acquired disorders of reading: hemianopic, pure and central alexia. The authors review the diagnostic criteria for each of the different types of disorder, and the efficacy of the therapeutic studies that have attempted to remediate them. The different theoretical models of adult reading, which largely rest on how the reading system responds to injury, are also discussed and evaluated. Focal brain injury caused by stroke and brain tumors are discussed in depth as are the effects of dementia on reading. This book starts with a chapter on normal reading, followed by chapters on hemianopic alexia, pure alexia and central alexia, each structured in the same way, with: a description of the condition; a historical review of cases to date; psychophysics; consideration of the causative lesions; evidence from functional imaging studies on patients and, most importantly, a review of the evidence base for treating each condition. Finally, there is a chapter on how patient data has informed how we think about reading. Alexia: Diagnosis, Treatment and Theory is aimed at neuropsychologists (both experimental and clinical), neurologists, speech therapists and others who deal with patients whose reading has been affected by an acquired brain injury, as well as interested students studying language disorders.
- Contents
- How do we read? -- Hemianopic alexia -- Pure alexia -- Central alexia -- Alexia theory and therapies: a heuristic.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
A coursebook on aphasia and other neurogenic language disorders
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat23075
Hedge, M.N.
(3rd ed.)
--Toronto, ON:
Thomson Nelson
, 2005.
- Call Number
- WL 103.5 H462c 2005
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WL 103.5 H462c 2005
- Author
- Hedge, M.N.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Publisher
- Thomson Nelson
- Date of Publication
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 546 p.
- ISBN
- 1418037362
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Aphasia
- Agnosia
- Brain Diseases - complications
- Dyslexia
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Dyslexia and literacy : an introduction to theory and practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat21695
Reid, Gavin.
--Hoboken, NJ:
John Wiley and Sons
, 2002.
- Call Number
- WL 340 R355d 2002
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WL 340 R355d 2002
- Author
- Reid, Gavin
- Place of Publication
- Hoboken, NJ
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Date of Publication
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 353 p.
- ISBN
- 0471486345
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Dyslexia
- Educational Status
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Dyslexia : a neuroscientific approach to clinical evaluation
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53252
Edited by Frank H. Duffy [and] Norman Geschwind.
--Boston, MA:
Little, Brown, and Co.
, 1985.
- Call Number
- WM 475.6 D91 1985
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WM 475.6 D91 1985
- Author
- Duffy, Frank H.
- Other Authors
- Geschwind, Norman
- Responsibility
- Edited by Frank H. Duffy [and] Norman Geschwind
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Co.
- Date of Publication
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 223 p. : ill.
- ISBN
- 316194549
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Dyslexia
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Feeling Smarter and Smarter : Discovering the Inner-Ear Origins and Treatment for Dyslexia/LD, ADD/ADHD, and Phobias/Anxiety
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44640
Harold N. Levinson, MD.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
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In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson, a renowned psychiatrist and clinical researcher, provides his long-awaited follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficult…
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- Author
- Levinson, Harold N.
- Responsibility
- Harold N. Levinson, MD
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 312 p.) : 64 illus., 38 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030162085
- 9783030162078 (Print ed.)
- 9783030162092 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Anxiety Disorders - therapy
- Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders - therapy
- Dyslexia - etiology
- Dyslexia - therapy
- Ear, Inner - physiopathology
- Learning Disorders - therapy
- Psychology, Educational
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson, a renowned psychiatrist and clinical researcher, provides his long-awaited follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficulties with: reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, sense of direction and time grammar, concentration/activity-level, balance and coordination headaches, nausea, dizziness, ringing ears, and motion-sickness frustration levels and feeling dumb, ugly, klutzy, phobic, and depressed impulsivity, cutting class, dropping out of school, and substance abuse bullying and being bullied as well as anger and social interactions later becoming emotionally traumatized and scarred dysfunctional adults Feeling Smarter and Smarter is thus also about and for the millions of frus-trated and failing adults who are often overwhelmed by similar and even more complicated symptoms—as well as for their dedicated healers. Having laid the initial foundations for his many current insights in an earlier bestseller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, Dr. Levinson now presents a compelling range of enlightening new cases and data as well as a large number of highly original discoveries—such as his challenging illumination that all dyslexia-related manifestations are primarily inner-ear or cerebellar-vestibular—not cerebrally—determined and so do not impair IQ, and an “ingeniously simple” explanatory theory of symptom formation. Most important, all the dyslexia/inner-ear based impairments and their symptoms were discovered by Dr. Levinson to respond rapidly and often “mi-raculously” in 75 to 85 percent of cases when treated with simple and safe inner-ear enhancing medications—thus enabling bright but dumb-feeling children and adults to feel… smarter and smarter.
- Contents
- 1. Dyslexia by Any Other Name -- 2. The Bottom Line -- 3. A Bit of History and Discovery -- 4. The Turning Point: Solving the Dyslexia Riddle -- 5. Listening to Dyslexics: My Simple Clinical Path Proved Key to Discovery -- 6. Kathy: The Intriguing Complexity of Dyslexia -- 7. The Self-Diagnostic Test: Evaluating Patients and Theories -- 8. Kathy and the Mistaken Theories of Dyslexia -- 9. The CVS Theory of Dyslexia: A Theory’s Value Is Entirely Dependent on Its Explanatory and Predictive Capabilities -- 10. Only the CVS Theory Can Explain All of Kathy’s Dyslexic Symptoms and Mechanisms -- 11. Some Important Q&As: Especially About the Higher Cerebellum and Kathy -- 12. Another Remarkable Case: Highlighting the Dyslexia/ADD/ADHD/ Phobia Connection -- 13. Making the Connections: An Introductory Overview -- 14. New Insights into ADD/ADHD -- 15. The CVS/Phobia Link: Three Steps Toward Conviction -- 16. The Reading Process in Dyslexia -- 17. The “Super-Ten” Basic Mechanisms Explaining the Dyslexia Syndrome -- 18. Many Helpful Therapies -- 19. Four Steps to a Certain Diagnosis -- 20. “I Didn’t Want Medical Treatment, But…”: Depression vs. “Dyslexia Without ‘Dyslexia’” -- 21. Real Smart Drugs and Treatment -- 22. An Effective Partial Medical Treatment for Autism (ASD) and Autistic Trait Disorder or Pseudo-autism -- 23. Kathy’s Favorable Response to Medical Treatment -- 24. Summary -- 25. Closure: The End Is Just a New Beginning -- Appendices.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
