Kochendoerfer 1998: Language processing and Alzheimer's disease

Kochendoerfer 1998: Language processing and Alzheimer's disease

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Guenter Kochendoerfer: Sprachverarbeitung bei Alzheimer-Demenz: Hypothesenbildung in neuronalen Modellen [Language processing and Alzheimer's disease. Hypotheses from neural models]. Tuebingen: Narr 1998. This book focuses on a very particular but highly plausible thesis concerning the reason for pathological phenomena observable in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The underestimated fact that in Alzheimer's disease patients a reduced alpha-rhythm frequency in the EEG can be observed, is directly related to numerous linguistic symptoms and memory deficits. Therefore the reduction in alpha-frequency gives us deeper insight into the causes of an Alzheimer's disease and lets us explain the basic principle that causes these drastic deficits. Methodolocically, neural models (simulations) of linguistic processes are the centre of the argumentation. The hypotheses worked out by the author in several earlier works are indirectly proven to be correct. The results in this publication support and are supported by several concepts underlying the current develpment of medicals for the Alzheimer's disease. Order this title via BOL.

Contents:

Preface

1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation and purposes
1.2 Outline of the linguistic phenomena in Alzheimer's disease
1.3 Organization of the book

2 The "predictive system" in language processing
2.1 Short term memory: Temporal sequences in language comprehension
2.2 Particular problems of short term memory in processing syntactic constituents
2.3 Processing spoken language
2.4 "Specific" and "unspecific" predictive system
2.5 The "watchdog-component" and the alpha-rhythm in the EEG

3 Episodical memory and the predictive system
3.1 What is episodical memory?
3.2 Learning mechanisms
3.3 Special requirements for the establishment of episodic traces
3.4 Context processing

4 Simulating impairment of the predictive system
4.1 Impairment of the processing of spoken language
4.2 Impairment of the establishment of episodic traces
4.3 A possible relationship between schizophrenia and stuttering

5 Hypotheses concerning linguistic competence
5.1 Lexical access, naming disturbance
5.2 Associative structures
5.3 Syntax
5.4 Learning mechanisms concerning linguistic competence
5.5 Secondary impairment of competence

6 The Alzheimer-brain
6.1 Evaulation of possible hypotheses concerning non-focal impairments
6.2 An overall concept (hypothetically)
6.3 P300
6.4 Conclusion

Appendix: Basic neurobiological terms (for linguists)

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