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From: Gunars Neiders
Date: 10/15/03
Time: 11:46:54 PM
Remote Name: 12.211.116.92
Hi,
Yesterday I received my copy of Robert Logan's The Three Dimensions of Stuttering: Neurology, Behavior, and Emotion. This is the second edition published in 1999 in London by Whurr publishers.
The blurb in the back reads: Beginning with a history of the neuro-physiologic bases of both emotina and stuttering, this revised and updated text presents a review of historical and current knowledge concerning those areas and structures of the central nervous system contributing to internal emotional responses, external manifestations of those responses, and the interconnections between emotional centres , learning and the initiation and fine motor control of speech. The sub-cortical limbic system is discussed as the origination point of cortical, sub-cortical, cerebellar and brainstem areas identified in recent research as inappropriately activated during stuttered speech. The implications of these data for the diagnosis and treatment of stuttering are examined in the concluding chapter of the book.
Just thumbing through the book I saw that Damasio, LeDoux, as well as Ingham's studies are included. Much of what I am learning in neuropsychology is reflected here.
Gunars