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edited by Franco Fabbro, 253 pp, with illus, $116, ISBN 0-08-044549-7, New York, NY, Elsevier Science, 2004.

Arch Neurol. 2005;62:1478.

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This multiauthor book is a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Aphasia Committee on neurogenic language disorders in children, on May 9 and 10, 2003, in Udine, Italy. It consists of 12 chapters. The first chapter is introductory by the editor and presents an overview of the entire volume and what it covers. The introduction makes clear in just about 1 page that there is little dedication in this volume to the developmental language disorders, presumed to be neurogenic and in many cases either genetic or congenital, but not emphasized in this book aside from the brief introductory section. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to various aspects of the relationship of epileptic syndromes (eg, Landau-Kleffner syndrome) to the pathophysiology of aphasia in children. Chapter 5 is devoted to focal brain lesions and their consequences in terms of language . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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