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 fractu...

Background: Overall, there is growing consensus that working memory (WM) should be routinely assessed in individuals with aphasia as it can contribute significantly to their level of language impairment and be an important factor in treatment planning. However, there is still no consensus in the field as to which tasks should be used to assess WM in aphasia. The two main alternatives are adapte...

BACKGROUND Speech segmentation is one of the initial and mandatory phases of language learning. Although some people with aphasia have shown a preserved ability to learn novel words, their speech segmentation abilities have not been explored. AIMS We examined the ability of individuals with chronic aphasia to segment words from running speech via statistical learning. We also explored the rel...

Global aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterized by severe impairments in all modalities of language. The specific sites of injury commonly include Wernike's and Broca's areas and result from large strokes--particularly those involving the internal carotid or middle cerebral arteries. Rarely, deep subcortical lesions may cause global aphasia. We present three cases with global apha...

Health related quality of life (HRQL) measures are increasingly used to evaluate stroke interventions. People with severe aphasia after stroke may be unable to self-report on such measures, necessitating the use of proxy respondents. This study explored the level of agreement between people with aphasia and their proxies on the Greek Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 generic version (...

Introduction: Broca’s aphasia, a non-fluent is frustrating condition with extensive psychological, familial, and social impact. The reports of people who have already recovered or can express themselves are essential to increasing knowledge about the experience living aphasia. A-FROM framework designed organize thinking impact aphasia includes four key domains: Communication language environmen...

The symptoms of aphasia will vary depending on the type aphasia. This study examined to determine Qualitative data collection involved observation and documentation. investigation found that main character's Broca's is most dominant. There are 5 7 happened in Lotje's case. common symptom non-fluent (55 data), followed by naming (15 agrammatism (10 phonological literal paraphasia verbal paraphas...

Recent research suggests that some people with aphasia preserve some ability to learn novel words and to retain them in the long-term. However, this novel word learning ability has been studied only in the context of single word-picture pairings. We examined the ability of people with chronic aphasia to learn novel words using a paradigm that presents new word forms together with a limited set ...