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Taking Sides: An Integrative Review of the Impact of Laterality and Polarity on Efficacy of Therapeutic Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Anomia in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia

open access: yesNeural Plasticity, 2016
Anomia is a frequent and persistent symptom of poststroke aphasia, resulting from damage to areas of the brain involved in language production. Cortical neuroplasticity plays a significant role in language recovery following stroke and can be facilitated
Margaret Sandars   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Test-Retest Reliability of fMRI During Nonverbal Semantic Decisions in Moderate-Severe Nonfluent Aphasia Patients

open access: yesBehavioural Neurology, 2004
Cortical reorganization in poststroke aphasia is not well understood. Few studies have investigated neural mechanisms underlying language recovery in severe aphasia patients, who are typically viewed as having a poor prognosis for language recovery ...
Jacquie Kurland   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age of acquisition effects on Chinese character recognition: an EEG study

open access: yes, 2008
The 46th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Turku, Finland, 19-21 October ...
Su, IF, Liu, YY, Weekes, BS
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Charles West: a 19th century perspective on acquired childhood aphasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Dr Charles West was the founder (1852) of the first paediatric hospital in the English-speaking world. In a career spanning four decades, he devoted a great part of his energies to describing the nervous diseases of infants and children.
Lorch, Marjorie, Hellal, Paula
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Non-verbal sound processing in the primary progressive aphasias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Little is known about the processing of non-verbal sounds in the primary progressive aphasias. Here, we investigated the processing of complex non-verbal sounds in detail, in a consecutive series of 20 patients with primary progressive aphasia [12 with ...
Goll, J. C.   +6 more
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Co‐Designing Aphasia Services: Evaluation of Involvement and Processes to Support Inclusion of People With Post Stroke Aphasia

open access: yesHealth Expectations
Background People with aphasia (PWA, impaired language/communication) are often excluded from research that concerns them due to a lack of methodological adaptations to support communication.
Lisa Anemaat   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When the Hand Says More Than the Mouth: Role of Gesture in Communication in Adults With and Without Aphasia

open access: yes
Adults with aphasia gesture more than adults without aphasia suggesting a compensatory role of gestures in aphasia communication. However, less is known about the role of gestures in different types of aphasia in varied discourse contexts that impose ...
Ozturk, Hatice Sumeyra
core   +1 more source

Deficits of semantic cognition in stroke aphasia: Underlying causes and ameliorating factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Research suggests that semantic memory deficits can occur in at least three ways. Patients can (1) show amodal degradation of concepts within the semantic store itself, such as in semantic dementia (SD), (2) have an impairment of semantic control ...
Thompson, Hannah Elizabeth
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Relating resting-state hemodynamic changes to the variable language profiles in post-stroke aphasia

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2018
Linking both structural lesions and the functional integrity of remaining brain tissue to patients' behavioural profile may be critical in discovering the limits of behavioural recovery post stroke.
Ying Zhao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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