Alexandre Castro Caldas
Portugal
Alexandre Castro Caldas is Professor of Neurology and presently Director of the Health Sciences Institute of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main interest is Behavioural Neurology. He was President of the International Neuropsychological Society in 2001 and published in the main journals of the field.
Language of illiterate subjects
Illiteracy due to social reasons is a common fact around the world. The first concepts about aphasia in the 19th century were based on observations done in patients not always literate but the fact was never considered important.
Our findings suggest that the brain organization of illiterate subjects differs from that of those that attended school in the proper age and this must have impact on the signs of aphasia.