Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders - Hardcover

Andreatta, Richard D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1635503590 ISBN 13: 9781635503593

Verlag: Plural Publishing Inc, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook primarily designed for undergraduate neural bases or graduate neuroscience courses in communication sciences and disorders programs (CSD). The text can also be used as an accessible go-to reference for speech-language pathology and audiology clinical professionals practicing in medical and rehab settings. Written with an engaging and conversational style, the author uses humor and analogies to explain concepts that are often challenging for students. Complemented by more than 400 visually rich and beautifully drawn full-color illustrations, the book emphasizes brain and behavior relationships while also ensuring coverage of essential neuroanatomy and neurophysiology in an integrative fashion. With a comprehensive background in the principles, processes, and structures underlying the workings of the human nervous system, students and practitioners alike, will be able to better understand and apply brain-behavior relationships to make appropriate clinical assessments and treatment decisions.

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Richard D. Andreatta, PhD, is an associate professor in Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD) and Rehabilitation Sciences in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Dr. Andreatta received his PhD in Speech Physiology and Neural Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and completed postdoctoral work in animal laryngeal neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Andreatta serves as the director of undergraduate studies in CSD and teaches courses in the speech sciences, speech anatomy & physiology, communication neuroscience, rehabilitation neuroplasticity, and dynamic systems theory. Dr. Andreatta is a recipient of the University of Kentucky Great Teacher Award and the UK College of Health Sciences Kingston Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Andreatta's research interests include sensory neuroscience and psychophysics in the orofacial system, laryngeal muscle biology, and the neurophysiology of speech production. Dr. Andreatta lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife, three children and golden retriever.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Plural Publishing Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1635503590
• ISBN 13: 9781635503593
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 802
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