Trauma, tumor, stroke, and aging are the principal causes of brain damage; the resulting changes in mental activity and personality are even more varied and less well understood. This book discusses these changes, with minimal concern for the anatomical or neuropathological aspects. The author is a psychologist who has worked for three years with braindamaged veterans and who continues to do research in this field. Aphasia as a result of stroke, recognized for centuries, has been carefully studied for the past hundred years, but there still are many areas of disagreement as to its various types and their relationship to the locus of injury. Gardner vividly presents several case studies and a detailed discussion of the many different symptom complexes. He analyzes the relationship between language and thought, giving a fair presentation of opposing viewpoints. Then he considers alexia, agraphia, and agnosia, with more case studies, speculation as to their
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Marjorie C. Meehan (1975) studied this question.