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June 2008
Movement Disorders in Neurologic Disease
Effects on Communication and Swallowing
Leonard L. LaPointe, Ph.D.,
Bruce E. Murdoch, Ph.D.
307 pages (approx.). Softcover. 8½ x11 in.
ISBN10: 1-59756-152-5. ISBN13: 978-1-59756-152-5.
US$98.00 CAN$111.00 £62.00 AU$153.00
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Movement disorders in neurologic disease are increasingly recognized across a wide range of disturbances of muscle tone and muscle control including: Parkinson's, Ataxia, Spasmodic Dysphonia, Huntington’s disease, and many more, all covered here in this, the first book of its kind in neurogenics of communication disorders.
All of these conditions can impact the motor control systems and frequently affect the linguistic and cognitive systems as well. This book helps readers in understanding each condition by presenting everything the practitioner needs to deal with the specialized skills of assessment and intervention. Coverage of each disorder includes an overview, the signs and symptoms, the genetics, effects on communication and swallowing, risk and protective factors, treatment decision-making, and much more. Furthermore, the authors provide valuable information on the medical aspects of each condition, enabling a level of understanding that will essure multidisciplinary professional communication and the planning and implementation of efficient strategies of intervention.
Supported by numerous graphs, figures, clinical photographs, and case studies, this unique book is an essential addition to the armory of the neurogenics and swallowing clinics.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leonard L. LaPointe, Ph.D.,received his Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado. He currently occupies an endowed distinguished professor chair, the Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Disorders, at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He also serves an invited term as Annual Visiting Professor in the School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has also served as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focus is in the area of neurological disorders of communication and cognition. He is the founding and current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.
Dr. LaPointe has authored or co-authored 5 books, 35 book chapters, over 80 journal articles, and presented more than 400 papers, lectures, or invited workshops in the United States, the former Soviet Union, several countries in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and the South American countries of Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. He has received the Honors of the Arizona Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences, and the Clinical Career Award from the Florida Society of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
He enjoys salt water, music, wine and the culinary arts, reading, writing, humor, the cultivation of optimism and the absurd, and is the author of Blood Ice, a novel published by AuthorHouse.com
Bruce E. Murdoch, Ph.D. is currently the Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Motor Speech and Neurogenic Language Disorders Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is internationally recognised for his research into acquired speech and language disorders of neurological origin in both adults and children. He has published 10 books and in excess of 270 articles in high impact refereed international journals in the area of motor speech and language disorders associated with a variety of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accidents, Parkinson’s disease, brain tumors and multiple sclerosis. Professor Murdoch has also contributed in excess of 50 invited chapters to books edited by other internationally recognised researchers. He has held the position of visiting professor at several institutions in the USA and Europe. He was the Foundation President of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing from 2000-2004, and Vice-President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics from 2001-2004.
Professor Murdoch is a member of the editorial boards of Aphasiology, Journal of Medical-Speech-Language Pathology, Brain Impairment and NeuroRehabilitation, as well as Founding Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing and Editor for the Asia-Pacific Region of Acta Neuropsychologica.
The Motor Speech and Neurogenic Language Disorders Research Centre at the University of Queensland was established by Professor Murdoch in the early 1990’s and since that time, under his direction, it has become internationally recognised as a one of the most productive and influential research centres of its type world-wide. The research centre attracts numerous international visitors each year and has been influential in establishing the importance of physiologically based techniques in the assessment and treatment of neurologically based communication deficits.
Professor Murdoch in recent years has presented invited plenary addresses at international conferences in Canada, USA, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Hong Kong and Taiwan. During the past three years he has conducted a number of workshops on neurogenic speech/language disorders in Brazil, Sweden, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA and Canada.
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