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...

This critical review examines the evidence from studies on the effectiveness of PROMPT therapy in the treatment of individuals with acquired apraxia of speech and coexisting aphasia. Four studies that met search criteria were obtained, all of which used single-subject multiple-baseline designs. This evidence-based literature review suggests that PROMPT therapy may be an effective treatment for ...

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Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a rare congenital disorder of mitochondrial DNA, presenting a wide range of clinical symptoms comprising headaches, seizures, aphasia, hearing loss, visual defects, and hemiparesis. Herein we report a case of a previously asymptomatic 40-year-old male who presented with recurrent headache, seiz...

Case presentation: Girl, 4 years old, healthy. Admitted with right hemiplegia, central facial paralysis and aphasia over 15 days. Vaccines for triple viral influenza given in the previous month. No recent infection. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) angiography showed hypersignal on T2/FLAIR nucleus-thalamo-capsular region, corona radiata external capsule left, without vasculopathy. Negative ser...

OBJECTIVE To study communication disability in stroke patients with aphasia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Prospective, multicentric cohort study of patients with aphasia, consecutively included after a first stroke, and examined 1 year later at home. Assessment included a stroke severity scale, the Barthel Index, the boston diagnostic aphasia examination, a communication questionnaire, and the aphasi...