6/27/10 Speech Pathology – Ellen Potter

Being able to speak is a given until you can’t. Speech is taken for granted. Many issues impede our ability to speak from genetics to disease. The role of speech pathology is discussed with Ellen Potter of Greenwich Hospital.

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Wernicke's Aphasia

http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00440

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke%27s_aphasia

Personality Disorders

http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00760

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

A Brain Disorder Easily Missed

Mr. Ferguson, now 74, thought he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, incontinent and struggling with dementia. Ten doctors were unable to tell him what was wrong, but an Internet search by his daughter found a condition that seemed to match his symptoms: normal pressure hydrocephalus, or N.P.H.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26brod.html?ref=health

Aphasia

http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/Encyclopedia/85,P00440

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome – http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/Encyclopedia/85,P00454

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau-kleffner_syndrome

Expressive aphasia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_aphasia

A Brain Disorder Easily Missed

Mr. Ferguson, now 74, thought he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, incontinent and struggling with dementia. Ten doctors were unable to tell him what was wrong, but an Internet search by his daughter found a condition that seemed to match his symptoms: normal pressure hydrocephalus, or N.P.H.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26brod.html?ref=health