A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.
    

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Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech / by Henry Head.

Zur Auffassung der Aphasien : eine kritische Studie / von Sigm. Freud.

Performances in aphasia : a neurodynamical diagnostic and psychological study / by A. Kreindler and A. Fradis.

De l'aphasie motrice (etude anatomo-clinique et physiologique).

Selected papers on the history of aphasia / Walther Riese ; with an introduction by William Gooddy ; edited with prefatory notes by Richard Hoops, Yvan Lebrun and Eric Buyssens.

Aphasia in children / by Alex. W.G. Ewing ; with an introduction by E.D. Adrian.

Progress in aphasiology / editor, F. Clifford Rose.

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Performances in aphasia : a neurodynamical diagnostic and psychological study / by A. Kreindler and A. Fradis.

De l'aphasie motrice (etude anatomo-clinique et physiologique).

Selected papers on the history of aphasia / Walther Riese ; with an introduction by William Gooddy ; edited with prefatory notes by Richard Hoops, Yvan Lebrun and Eric Buyssens.

Aphasia in children / by Alex. W.G. Ewing ; with an introduction by E.D. Adrian.

Progress in aphasiology / editor, F. Clifford Rose.