BACKGROUND It has been speculated that the conflicting results demonstrated across poststroke aphasia therapy studies might be related to differences in intensity of therapy provided across studies. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between intensity of aphasia therapy and aphasia recovery. METHODS A MEDLINE literature search was conducted to retrieve clinical trials in...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early poststroke aphasia rehabilitation effects and their functional MRI (fMRI) correlates were investigated in a pilot, controlled longitudinal study. METHODS Twelve patients with mild/moderate aphasia (8 Broca, 3 anomic, and 1 Wernicke) were randomly assigned to daily language rehabilitation for 2 weeks (starting 2.2 [mean] days poststroke) or no rehabilitation. The A...

BACKGROUND Intensive speech therapy improves language function in patients with chronic aphasia, although treatment in the acute phase is more effective than in the chronic phase. Unfortunately, most patients with stroke go untreated due to socioeconomic problems. This study was performed to develop and test a speech therapy-based telerehabilitation program (iAphasia), suitable for use on a mob...

BACKGROUND Aphasia affects one third of acute stroke patients. There is a considerable spontaneous recovery in aphasia, but impaired communication ability remains a great problem. Communication difficulties are an impediment to rehabilitation. Early treatment of the language deficits leading to increased communication ability would improve rehabilitation. The aim of this study is to elucidate t...

Aphasia is a disorder of the brain that causes sufferers to have difficulty communicating. In diagnosing this disorder, TADIR test needed. The actually diagnostic tool carried out manually so it takes long time get results, therefore in study an application was created shorten while saving data automatically into database treatment can be done faster. stages research start from identification p...

background: cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and wh-questions. to assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with no...

INTRODUCTION Clinical research highlights the importance of massed practice in the rehabilitation of chronic post-stroke aphasia. However, while necessary, massed practice may not be sufficient for ensuring progress in speech-language therapy. Motivated by recent advances in neuroscience, it has been claimed that using language as a tool for communication and social interaction leads to synergi...

Although widely explored, the nature of the lexical-semantic deficit observed in Broca's aphasia and its relation to the brain region of the same name has remained elusive. The present study coupled a case study approach with an auditory sentence-priming task to test hypothesized deficits in activation, selection, and integration mechanisms. Lexical decision latency and accuracy for three types...