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Aphasia, an acquired language disor [PDF]

, 2010
Affecting an estimated one in every 272 South Africans, or 0.37% of the population, aphasia is a neurological condition described as “any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language caused by a brain lesion”.
Van der Merwe, G, Schoeman, R
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Altered Functional Connectivity in Acute Ischemic Post-Stroke Non-Fluent Aphasia Based on fMRI-EEG Multimodal Fusion

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
This study examined alterations in resting-state and task-state functional connectivity (FC) in patients with acute ischemic post-stroke nonfluent aphasia, using a combined resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and visuospatial working ...
Juehan Wang, Lin Mao, Hang Zhou, Shuang Wei, Tianfang Zhang, Haijun Li, Lingmei Ni, Shuyi Pan, Dazhi Guo, Daming Wang, Zuobing Chen   +10 more
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Prosodic Pitch and Intensity Patterns in People With Moderate Broca\u27s Aphasia [PDF]

People with aphasia (PWA) experience deficits in utilizing prosody, which drastically impacts their communicative effectiveness. The lack of prosody in people with aphasia may alter their ability to nurture meaningful relationships, advance educational ...
Pickard, Juliana
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An intelligent system based on fuzzy probabilities for medical diagnosis – a study in aphasia diagnosis

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2009
<ul><li><strong>BACKGROUND</strong>: Aphasia diagnosis is particularly challenging due to the linguistic uncertainty and vagueness, inconsistencies in the definition of aphasic syndromes, large number of measurements with&nbsp;
Majid Moshtagh Khorasani, Mohammad-R Akbarzadeh-T, Nader Jahangiri, Mahdi Khoobdel   +3 more
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Inreraction of Syntactic Comprehension and Ability of Cognitive Sequence Processing in Persian Speeking Broca Aphasic Patients

Journal of Rehabilitation, 2008
Objective: Recent studies shown that related or common neuro-physiological processes are required for processing non-linguistic structures (e.g. cognitive sequencing) and some aspects of syntactic structure in language .As there has not been such ...
Hayat A'meri, Arsalan Golfam, Herman Kolk, Hassan A'shayeri, Ali Mohammad Hagh-Shenas, Elliyeh Kord-Za'feranlou   +5 more
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Conversation therapy for agrammatism: exploring the therapeutic process of engagement and learning by a person with aphasia. [PDF]

, 2013
A recent systematic review of conversation training for communication partners of people with aphasia has shown that it is effective, and improves participation in conversation for people with chronic aphasia.
Best, W, Johnson, F, Maxim, J, Edwards, S, Beckley, F, Beeke, S   +5 more
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Bromocriptine is ineffective in the treatment of chronic nonfluent aphasia

, 1995
The effect of bromocriptine on chronic nonfluent aphasia was investigated in 4 patients suffering from a stroke 24 to 35 months before the onset of this study (average 29 months).
Ozeren A., Sarica Y., Mavi H., Demirkiran M.   +3 more
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Increased interhemispheric functional connectivity after right anodal tDCS in chronic non-fluent aphasia: preliminary findings

Frontiers in Neuroscience
IntroductionAnodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive, low-cost and environment-friendly brain neuromodulation technique that increases cortical excitability.
Federica Alemanno, Davide Fedeli, Davide Fedeli, Alessia Monti, Elise Houdayer, Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa, Federica Zangrillo, Daniele Emedoli, Elisabetta Pelagallo, Massimo Corbo, Sandro Iannaccone, Jubin Abutalebi, Jubin Abutalebi   +12 more
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Formation of the Concept of Aphasia in Paul Broca\'s Work

, 2019
Esta dissertação descreve os elementos históricos na formação do conceito de afasia representada pelo neurologista francês do século XIX Paul Broca. Nela foram introduzidos primeiramente os casos memoráveis de distúrbios da fala registrados há séculos ...
Paula, Jaime Castro de
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Agrammatism in aphasia: Production and comprehension of aspect by english-speaking Broca&apos;s aphasics

, 1992
This study was an investigation of aspectual competence in English-speaking Broca&apos;s Aphasics, normal adults and children. Microcomputer-assisted production and comprehension tasks presented actions which varied in (1) whether or not an ...
Bieber, Karen Lee Cole
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