Chapter 13-14 Links-Human

Communication

Speech and Language Disorders: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/splang.html Links to homepages relating to speech and language disorders.

Stroke Effects: http://www.amhrt.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/strokeef.html This page of facts about stroke is a service of the American Heart Association.

Fact Sheets On Disabilities: http://www.dircsa.org.au/pub/docs/fact.htm This site provides links to fact sheets on a variety of disabilities ranging from Attention Deficit Disorder to Tinnitus.

Communications Disorder Health Guide:

This site provides links to databases, electronic libraries, text summaries, and an online dictionary relating to communication disorders.

National Aphasia Association: http://www.aphasia.org/ This web site provides a fact sheet on aphasia, an aphasia knowledge quiz, links to current aphasia research projects, and information on aphasia self-help groups.

Conversations with Neil’s Brain: Chapter 14: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcalvin/bk7/bk7ch14.htm This chapter deals with the neuroanatomy of language.

Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html

This is a reference web site with links to Internet sites on language and communication disorders.

The Whole Brain Atlas: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html Segments in this web site include a series of MR scans of patients experiencing speech arrest, fluent aphasia, transcortical aphasia, or alexia without agraphia. The site allows an instructor or student to examine the development of brain damage at different levels of brain over time.

Aphasia: http://www.nih.gov/nidcd/aphasia2.htm

A reference web site related to aphasia.

Speech-Language Pathology: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Psychology/project_pages/aphasia.html A reference site with numerous links to sites relating to communication disorders including aphasia. http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcalvin/memory.html This site provides a tutorial on human memory and contrasts human memory vs. computer memory.

Information-Processing Approach: http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~whuitt/psy702/cogsys/infoproc.html This web-site provides a tutorial on human memory including a stage model of memory.

Memory Under Stress: http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd/RQ_Spring_1996.html A site that outlines a novel theory of memory that links the amygdala and emotional processing to the activity of the hippocampus. The site serves as a form of a tutorial in critical studies of the neuroanatomy of memory and provides an updated annotated bibliography.