BACKGROUND A cardioembolic source, usually atrial fibrillation (AF), is detected in 14-30% of strokes. If AF is found, anticoagulation therapy provides a substantial decrease of the risk of recurrent cerebrovascular ischemic events. AF is often paroxysmal, and extensive diagnostic procedures may be necessary to detect it in patients. Considering cost-effectiveness and patient burden, however, n...

Aphasia is an acquired cognitive disorder that affects language abilities, while leaving intellect intact. The overall goal of the Aphasia Project is to investigate how technology can be designed to better support people with aphasia, contributing to the objective of universal usability. Through the design of a daily planner for a handheld device, we explore the issues that arise and modificati...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In a geographically defined population, we assessed incidence and determinants of aphasia attributable to first-ever ischemic stroke (FEIS). METHODS A 1-year prospective, population-based study among the permanent residents of the canton Basle City, Switzerland, was performed using multiple overlapping sources of information. RESULTS Among 188,015 inhabitants, 269 pat...

Positive outcomes from intensive therapy for individuals with aphasia have been reported in the literature. Little is known about the characteristics of individuals who attend intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) and what factors may predict who makes clinically significant changes when attending such programs. Demographic data on participants from 6 ICAPs showed that individuals wh...

OBJECTIVE To develop the Korean version of the Cognitive Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (K-CASP) and to evaluate the test reliability and validity of the K-CASP in stroke patients. METHODS The original CASP was translated into Korean, back-translated into English, then reviewed and compared with the original version. Thirty-three stroke patients were assessed independently by two examin...

Background: People with aphasia have been engaging research in a variety of ways. There are few descriptions how they involved participatory methodologies and even fewer reports describe their perspective on participating as co-researchers.Aims: To explore the experiences reflections two people aphasia, BG MG, being studies co-researchers – Conversation Partner Programme Evaluation Project Frie...

We describe hypergeometric functions of Deligne-Mostow type for open subsets of the configuration space of six points on P, induced from those for seven points on P. The seven point ball quotient example DM(2, 1) does not appear on Mostow’s original list [9], but does appear on Thurston’s corrected version [12]. We show that DM(2, 1) is a finite cover of the moduli space of cubic surfaces MC en...

We study the notion of a strongly normal sequence in the dual E∗ of a Banach space E. In particular, we prove that the following three conditions are equivalent: (1) E∗ has a strongly normal sequence, (2) (E∗, σ(E∗, E)) has a Schauder basic sequence, (3) E has an infinite-dimensional separable quotient.

The relationship between recovery from aphasia and regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) was compared in 87 patients, 44 with cerebral hemorrhage and 43 with non-embolic cerebral infarction. CBF values correlated poorly with aphasia outcome in patients with cerebral hemorrhage whereas a tight correlation was demonstrated in patients with non-embolic cerebral infarction. A marked variability of CBF...

Research indicates that communication between patients with communication disorders and their health care providers may be compromised, which leads to adverse outcomes and reduced participation in patients' own health care. Emerging studies demonstrate that effective communication education programs may decrease communication difficulties. This feasibility study of an education program that inc...