Acquired epileptiform aphasia: 44 years after diagnosis

Acquired Aphasia in Children

Acquired childhood aphasia is rare but has important conceptual implications for developmental neuropsychology. The last 15 years have seen major changes in their clinical description, which have led to the awareness that the syndromes in acquired childhood aphasia are more similar to the syndromes in adult aphasia than previously thought. This article briefly discusses the definition and diffe...

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

Recovering from Acquired Childhood Aphasia (ACA)–20 Years Later, Learning about the Neuroplasticity of Language

Language is at the core of human cognitive abilities and the mechanisms associated with neural recovery from aphasia are still largely unknown. Important insights have been reported, such as: i) Significantly better recovery occurs, if the brain lesions leading to aphasia were suffered during childhood (ACA); ii) that perilesional map expansion and transference of language functions to homologu...

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: An Acquired Epileptic Aphasia.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome is characterized by a complex group of symptoms including deterioration in language skills, seizures, and abnormal electroencephalography findings. A six-year-old male patient had aphasia for three years and generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizures for two years. Pure-tone audiometry and auditory brain-stem response audiometry findings were normal. He had verbal audi...

Subcortical Aphasia After Stroke

Objective To evaluate the types and severity of subcortical aphasia after stroke and to determine the predictors of the degree of aphasic impairment. Methods Medical records of 38 patients with post-stroke subcortical aphasia (19 males; mean age, 61.7±13.8 years) were reviewed retrospectively with respect to the following tests: the Korean version of the Western Aphasia Battery (K-WAB), the K...