RT Journal
T1 Language and language disturbances: Aphasic symptom complexes and their significance for medicine and theory of language
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 2
VO 139
IS 14
SP 967
OP 968
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071031
AB This book of 374 pages on language is written by a competent neurologist and neuropathologist and is the result of many years of study both in Germany and in America. The author early in his discussion speaks of the difficulties that arise in the real understanding of speech and language. From the ordinary neurologic textbook one gets the idea that the difficulties of speech (aphasia, dysarthria, etc.) are easy to understand as far as localization and mechanisms are concerned. Goldstein shows that such an idea is not true. He attempts to present those speech disturbances observed in lesions of the brain cortex in a form useful both for theoretic and practical purposes in the clinic. There are two parts: One is on the origin of aphasic symptoms and the other is on speech problems, from the clinical and pathologic standpoint. This work is of tremendous clinical value, and as far