The present study was conducted on 56 patients (34 females, 22 males), presenting with aphasia due to ischemic insult in the domain of the MCA. Patients were divided into 2 groups to study the short and long-term changes of rCBF in various clinical types of aphasia. They were subjected to thorough neurological examination, assessment of aphasia using modified Chesher test and AAT, laboratory te...

BACKGROUND Implicit learning is a process of learning that occurs outside of conscious awareness and may be involved in implicit, exposure-based language training. However, research shows that implicit learning abilities are variable among individuals with aphasia, and it remains unknown whether individuals who show basic implicit learning abilities also benefit from implicit language training....

OBJECTIVE To reduce prevalence of anaemia in low-income postpartum women. DESIGN A randomised, non-blind clinical trial was conducted among 959 low-income, postpartum women in eleven clinics in Mississippi. The clinics were randomised to one of three treatment groups: (i) selective anaemia screening of high-risk women as recommended currently (control); (ii) universal anaemia screening and tr...

Cancer screening tests are important tools to combat cancer-related morbidity and mortality. There is limited up-to-date research on spatial and temporal variations of colorectal and breast cancer screening in the United States.County-level data of cancer screening adherence rates were generated from 2008 to 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We performed the univariate local indi...

The goal of this study was to address the relationship between language proficiency, language impairment and rehabilitation in bilingual Russian-English individuals with aphasia. As a first step, we examined two Russian-English patients' pre-stroke language proficiency using a detailed and comprehensive language use and history questionnaire and evaluated their impairment using the Bilingual Ap...

INTRODUCTION Aphasia is considered to be the most difficult disorders of speech-language communication, and is often companion by all forms of cerebrovascular disease. GOAL To determine the outcome of aphasia disorder a year after a stroke and stroke type influence on the outcome of aphasia disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed one-year outcome of aphasia disorders in patients who had...

a new competitive immunochromatography (icg) strip test based on polyclonal antibody (pab) conjugated with gold nanoparticles (nps) was developed and its applications for primary screening of immunoglobulin (ig) a in serum were evaluated. nanocolloidal gold as the detection reagent, with an average particle diameter of 20 nm, was synthesized and labelled pab. the antibody-nanocolloidal gold pro...

BACKGROUND Brain perfusion may differ between patients with corticobasal syndrome (CBS) with and without aphasia. METHODS Twenty-six (9 males and 17 females; mean age 76 ± 5.3 years) patients with CBS were enrolled in the study. Brain MRI and single-photon emission computed tomography were performed in all subjects. Language was evaluated using the Standard Language Test of Aphasia. The patie...

A range of methods in clinical research aim to assess treatment-induced progress in aphasia therapy. Here, we used a crossover randomized controlled design to compare the suitability of utterance-centered and dialogue-sensitive outcome measures in speech-language testing. Fourteen individuals with post-stroke chronic non-fluent aphasia each received two types of intensive training in counterbal...

BACKGROUND Aphasia is a severely disabling condition occurring in 20 to 25% of stroke patients. Most patients with aphasia due to stroke receive speech and language therapy. Methodologically sound randomised controlled trials investigating the effect of specific interventions for patients with aphasia following stroke are scarce. The currently available evidence suggests that intensive speech a...