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Predictors of Therapy Response in Chronic Aphasia: Building a Foundation for Personalized Aphasia Therapy [PDF]

Journal of Stroke, 2022
Chronic aphasia, a devastating impairment of language, affects up to a third of stroke survivors. Speech and language therapy has consistently been shown to improve language function in prior clinical trials, but few clinicially applicable predictors of ...
Sigfus Kristinsson, Dirk B. den Ouden, Chris Rorden, Roger Newman-Norlund, Jean Neils-Strunjas, Julius Fridriksson   +5 more
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Neuroplasticity of language networks in aphasia: advances, updates, and future challenges [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Researchers have sought to understand how language is processed in the brain, how brain damage affects language abilities, and what can be expected during the recovery period since the early 19th century.
Kiran, Swathi, Thompson, Cynthia K.
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Co‐Design of a Unified, International Aphasia Awareness Campaign [PDF]

Health Expectations
Introduction Poor aphasia awareness is an international problem. Previous aphasia awareness campaigns have lacked coordination across countries and have not routinely involved people with the diversity of skills needed to design a campaign.
Claire Bennington, Ciara Shiggins, Jytte Isaksen, Emma Beesley, Kim Beesley, Jean‐Marie Annoni, Jude Czerenkowski, Carly Davey, Natalie Douglas, Alexia Kountouri, Caitlin Longman, Apoorva Paurinak, Sarah Scott, Kathryn Shelley, Sarah J. Wallace   +14 more
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Intensive speech and language therapy in patients with chronic aphasia after stroke: a randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, controlled trial in a health-care setting

Lancet, The, 2017
Caterina Breitenstein, Agnes Flöel, Wolfram Ziegler   +2 more
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Recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke.

Brain : a journal of neurology, 2022
Most individuals who experience aphasia after a stroke recover to some extent, with the majority of gains taking place in the first year. The nature and timecourse of this recovery process is only partially understood, especially its dependence on lesion
Stephen M. Wilson, Jillian L Entrup, Sarah M. Schneck, Caitlin F. Onuscheck, Deborah F. Levy, Maysaa Rahman, Emma Willey, Marianne Casilio, Melodie Yen, Alexandra Brito, Wayneho Kam, Taylor Davis, Michael de Riesthal, H. Kirshner   +13 more
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Incidence of Aphasia in Ischemic Stroke

Neuroepidemiology, 2022
Introduction: A decrease in ischemic stroke (IS) incidence has been observed in high income countries during the last decades. Whether this has influenced the occurrence of aphasia in IS is uncertain.
Angelina Grönberg, Ingrid Henriksson, Martin Stenman, A. Lindgren   +3 more
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Incidence of post-stroke depression symptoms and potential risk factors in adults with aphasia in a comprehensive stroke center

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2022
Introduction Depression may be a frequent sequela after stroke, however, its incidence has rarely been reported. The likelihood of post-stroke depression (PSD) may relate to individual factors including the presence of aphasia, which also complicates PSD
Cristina Zanella, Jacqueline S. Laures-Gore, Vonetta M. Dotson, S. Belagaje   +3 more
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What is Functional Communication? A Theoretical Framework for Real-World Communication Applied to Aphasia Rehabilitation

Neuropsychology Review, 2022
Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or traumatic brain injury, that affects a person’s ability to communicate effectively.
W. Doedens, L. Meteyard
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Current Approaches to the Treatment of Post-Stroke Aphasia

Journal of Stroke, 2021
Aphasia, impairment of language after stroke or other neurological insult, is a common and often devastating condition that affects nearly every social activity and interaction.
J. Fridriksson, A. Hillis
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Timing of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with speech and language therapy (SLT) for aphasia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2022
Background Studies suggest that language recovery in aphasia may be improved by pairing speech-language therapy with transcranial direct current stimulation.
Sameer A. Ashaie, Samantha Engel, Leora R. Cherney   +2 more
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