background: cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and wh-questions. to assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with no...

Language impairments in patients with acquired brain injury can have a negative impact on social life as well as on other cognitive domains. Discourse impairments are among the most commonly reported communication deficits among patients with acquired brain damage. Despite advances in the development of diagnostic tools for detecting such impairments, few studies have investigated interventions...

introduction: aphasia is a language disorder resulting from a lesion in the cerebral cortex. in this case report, we present a polyglot patient who recovered from aphasia by speaking his newly active learned language case report: a 69 years old male referred with acute onset right hemiparesis and global aphasia. after imaging, he treated with 75 mg r-tpa (0.9 mg/kg). after the fourth day of hos...

Introduction: Aphasia is a language disorder resulting from a lesion in the cerebral cortex. In this case report, we present a polyglot patient who recovered from aphasia by speaking his newly active learned language Case Report: A 69 years old male referred with acute onset right hemiparesis and global aphasia. After imaging, he treated with 75 mg r-TPA (0.9 mg/kg). After the fourth day of ...

  Fat embolism syndrome is a clinical diagnosis, and diagnostic procedures are not specific. In every trauma patient, Fat embolism syndrome has to be considered as a possibility and supportive treatment should begin as soon as possible. The authors reported a rare case of Fat embolism syndrome whose only neurological symptom was motor aphasia. A young man sustained comminuted femoral shaft frac...

Iconicity is the non-arbitrary relation between properties of a phonological form and semantic content (e.g. "moo", "splash"). It is a common feature of both spoken and signed languages, and recent evidence shows that iconic forms confer an advantage during word learning. We explored whether iconic forms conferred a processing advantage for 13 individuals with aphasia following left-hemisphere ...

UNLABELLED Language and lifestyle changes experienced following the onset of aphasia extend beyond the individual to impact family members of persons with aphasia. Research exploring the meaning of living successfully with aphasia has explored the perspectives of individuals with aphasia and speech-language pathologists. Family members' views of living successfully with aphasia may also contrib...

AphasiaDx is an expert system that has been created to assist with the diagnosis of aphasia. It has been developed using Common Lisp, Common Lisp Object System, and a logic programming system Prolisp. As part of a larger neurodiagnostic system, Neurobridge, AphasiaDx has been programmed to diagnose Broca’s aphasia, Wernicke’s Aphasia, global aphasia, mixed transcortical aphasia, transcortical s...