Intensive Communicative Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Depression in Chronic Nonfluent Aphasia
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Intensive Communicative Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Depression in Chronic Nonfluent Aphasia
BACKGROUND Patients with brain lesions and resultant chronic aphasia frequently suffer from depression. However, no effective interventions are available to target neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with aphasia who have severe language and communication deficits. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of 2 different methods of speech and language therapy in reducing...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1545-9683,1552-6844
DOI: 10.1177/1545968317744275