[lingtalks] Reminder: Today at 3:00 - Aphasia presentation by Nina Dronkers

[Margaret Paulson]

Please excuse multiple postings:

 

This is one final reminder of today's case presentation by Nina Dronkers
with an Aphasic patient. Hope you can make it.


The Center for Research in Language invites you to a workshop on Wernicke's
Aphasia with a case presentation by Nina Dronkers, Director, Center for
Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System,
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Linguistics, University of
California Davis, and Research Scientist, Center for Research in Language,
University of California San Diego
 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
3:00 - 5:00 pm
CogSci room 003
 
Title: Wernicke's Aphasia: What It Is and What It's Not 

Summary: This presentation is the second in a series of talks on aphasia, a
disorder of language due to injury to the brain. This presentation will
concern Wernicke's aphasia, the type of aphasia that affects the
lexical-semantic system without affecting motor speech production. An
individual with Wernicke's aphasia has kindly agreed to be interviewed in
front of the audience, and will teach us, first-hand, about the effects of
brain injury on the language system. This interview will be followed by a
lecture on Wernicke's aphasia as well as its relationship to Wernicke's area
of the brain. In addition, Wernicke's aphasia will be discussed in relation
to semantic dementia, a neurodegenerative disorder that is often confused
with Wernicke's aphasia.
 
No prior knowledge about aphasia is required. All are welcome, from novices
to aphasiologists.
 
Refreshments will be provided.
 

 


Margaret Paulson

Center for Research in Language

University of California San Diego

Tel: 858-534-0714

Fax: 858-822-5097

 

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