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Zaburzenia językowe w chorobach neurodegeneracyjnych – aspekty diagnostyczne i terapeutyczne
Linguistic disorders in neuro-degenerative diseases – diagnostic and therapeutic aspects

Author(s): Iwona Nowakowska-Kempna, Daniel Stompel, Tatiana Lewicka
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: speech disorders of older people; vascular diseases; neuro-degenerative diseases; damage of cerebral structures

Summary/Abstract: Authors of the article undertook the subject of discussion dealing with complex problems of the speach disorders occurrence at older people. Changes taking place regarding speech of older people relate mostly to people at very advanced age and they usually have influence on the efficiency of communicating with the society. Linguistic disorders are connected with the physiological process of aging of the organism and they can come into being on the basis of various types of diseases, in the result of which it comes to the damage of cerebral structures. These diseases can have vascular or neuro-degenerative basis.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 76-94
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish