UNLABELLED There has been a marked increase in attention to the measurement of "outcomes" after speech-language intervention for adult aphasia. Consumers, speech-language pathologists (SLPs), and funding sources desire evidence of therapy outcomes that improve communication and enhance the quality of life for people with aphasia. While many assessment tools are available to measure outcomes aft...

The goal of the study was threefold: 1) to evaluate QEEG/ERPs in dexes of functional brain impairment after a stroke associated with chronic crossed transcortical sensory aphasia, 2) to construct a neu rotherapy protocol to compensate for this functional damage, and 3) to assess the changes in the functional neuromarkers induced by the neurotherapy sessions. A 72-year-old, strongly right-handed...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence of semantic, phonological and syntactic deficits in acute aphasia with the ScreeLing after the establishment of its psychometric properties. To examine the relationship between these deficits and: (i) overall aphasia severity; and (ii) quality of Spontaneous Speech. METHODS The reliability and validity of the ScreeLing was established by investigating 1...

Global aphasia without hemiparesis is a striking stroke syndrome involving language impairment without the typically manifested contralateral hemiparesis, which is usually seen in patients with global aphasia following large left perisylvian lesions. The objective of this study is to elucidate the specific areas for lesion localization of global aphasia without hemiparesis by retrospectively st...

PURPOSE There is a lot of evidence that people with aphasia have more difficulty understanding structurally complex sentences (e.g., object clefts) than simpler sentences (subject clefts). However, subject clefts also occur more frequently in English than object clefts. Thus, it is possible that both structural complexity and frequency affect how people with aphasia understand these structures....

aphasia. Naturally, this impairment varies considerably based on aphasia type and severity. Although impaired repetition is found in several of the different aphasia types, it is the primary impairment in conduction aphasia. In 1874 Wernicke predicted that severing the connection between the speech production and comprehension modules included in the Wernicke-Lichtheim (Lichtheim, 1885; Wernick...

We report the clinical findings of a 40-year-old woman with recurrent migraine presenting with Wernicke's aphasia in accordance with the results of a standardized battery for language assessment (Boston Aphasia Diagnostic Examination). The patient had no evidence of parenchymal or vascular lesions on MRI and showed delta and theta slowing over the left posterior temporal leads on the EEG. Altho...

Thumbnail Language disturbances observed in cases of damage outside of the “brain language area” are known as extrasylvian or transcortical aphasia. Preserved language repetition is its distinguishing characteristic. Two major subtypes of extrasylvian aphasia have been traditionally distinguished: extrasylvian motor aphasia and extrasylvian sensory aphasia, each one presenting rather different ...

The age and gender of a series of patients with different types of aphasia were analysed. Regardless of gender, patients with Broca and conduction aphasias were significantly younger than those with Wernicke and global aphasias. Considering the established cerebral localisation of each of those aphasia types, it appears that, with age, stroke in the territory of the middle cerebral artery will ...