Background: Post-stroke aphasia is one of the major disabilities and a risk factor for other complications, is also associated with increased mortality, depression and impairments in communication. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is an alternative. We propose the review of literature published until now of rTMS. Methods: We included articles published on PubMed and EMBASE, w...

BACKGROUND To provide a preliminary estimate of efficacy of constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) when compared to no-intervention in patients with chronic (>1 year) post-stroke aphasia in order to plan an appropriately powered randomized controlled trial (RCT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a pilot single-blinded RCT. 24 patients were randomized: 14 to CIAT and 10 to no-intervention....

INTRODUCTION ‘Task’ or ‘information-processing demands’ (e.g. Wallach and Miller 1988) are the challenges that essentially set in motion the language and cognitive processing work through which the goals of aphasia language therapy are achieved (Robson and Horton, in press). Therapists operationalise goals by introducing stimuli, getting the client to respond, responding contingently themselves...

A Dual Task Paradigm: The cerebral laterality of pitch and rhythm and implications for aphasia therapy" (2014).

There is good evidence that aphasia therapy is effective if sufficiently prolonged or intensive and that chronic aphasic individuals can also benefit from therapy, but data on chronic aphasia are scanty. The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate whether chronic aphasia benefits from a very intensive therapeutic regimen. We revised the files (January 2000 to December 2008) of the ch...

Aphasia treatment for the recovery of lost communication functionalities is possible through frequent and intense speech therapy sessions. In this sense, speech and language technology may provide important support in improving the recovery process. The aim of the project Vithea (Virtual Therapist for Aphasia Treatment) is to develop an on-line system designed to behave as a virtual therapist, ...

BACKGROUND The Cochrane review on the effectiveness of speech and language therapy for aphasia following stroke suggests intensity of therapy is a key predictor for outcome. Current aphasia services cannot provide intervention at the intensity observed within trial contexts because of resource limitations. Telerehabilitation could widen access to speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in geographi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the therapeutic effect of neurologic music therapy (NMT) and speech language therapy (SLT) through improvement of the aphasia quotient (AQ) in post-stroke aphasic patients. METHODS Twenty-one post-stroke, nonfluent aphasia patients who had ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke on radiologic evaluation were divided into the NMT and SLT groups. They received NMT and SLT for 1 mon...

Our age, building around the World Wide Web, is called the era of information. This usually means simple access to news, theoretical or practical knowledge in science and engineering. But, less in the forefront, new ways of representation, embodiment of information give a very powerful hand in treatment of special patients. Recognising these offerings of modern information technology, a group o...