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Free articles by Professor Chris Code

We would like to congratulate Professor Chris Code who recently received an award from the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia for his services to aphasia.

The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia recognised Professor Code’s many achievements, including his professional posts at several global universities, voluntary work with Aphasia Now and his role as co-founder and current Editor of the journal Aphasiology.

In celebration, we’ve made four of Professor Chris Code’s ground-breaking research articles free to view for a month:

• What is aphasia? Results of an international survey By Nina Simmons-Mackie; Chris Code; Elizabeth Armstrong; Lillian Stiegler; Roberta J. Elman (Aphasiology, Vol.16, Issue 8, 837-848)
• The quantity of life for people with chronic aphasia By Chris Code (Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Vol. 13, Issue 3, 379-390)
• The relevance of emotional and psychosocial factors in aphasia to rehabilitation By Chris Code and Manfred Herrmann (Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Vol. 13, Issues 1&2, 109-132)
• Opportunities to say ‘yes’: Rare speech automatisms in a case of progressive nonfluent aphasia and apraxia By Chris Code, Jeremy J. Tree, Karen Dawe (Neurocase, Vo. 15, Issue 6, 445-458)

find out more about the journal 'Aphasiology', edited by Chris Code

Laterality’s new 1.514* impact factor

The international journal of Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition has a 2009 impact factor of 1.514, up from 0.812 in 2008*.

Why not join celebrating with us by reading the introduction to the 2010 special issue on the history of handedness and lateralisation.

Compiled by the journal’s regular Editors, this issue brings together various studies on diverse subjects such as fencing, side biases for carrying infants and Jimi Hendrix!

* (© 2010 Thomson Reuters)

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The Neuropsychology of Asian-Americans

This is the first comprehensive resource to assist neuropsychologists in providing culturally-competent services to Asian-Americans.

It covers the provision of an optimal environment for test administration, the interpretation of tests within a cultural context, and delivery of culturally-sensitive feedback and recommendations.

It also provides an insight of how neuropsychology is currently practiced in different Asian countries.

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Rehabilitation of Visual Disorders After Brain Injury, 2nd Ed.

This updated and extended second edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them.

These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with follow up observation data. This original, tailor-made approach also includes the recording of eye movements for assessing scanning performance in scene perception and reading.

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No evidence for neuropsychological impairment in sports players with head injuries

An article from the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology has been highlighted in the latest BPS Research Digest.

Do UK university football club players suffer neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of their football (soccer) play? is written by Andrew Rutherford, Richard Stephens, Gordon Fernie, and Douglas Potter.

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