Background: In certain regions of the brain, aphasia arises from a lack understanding and regulating language following damage. About 35–40 percent people receiving hospitalization after stroke are identified with aphasia. The recently developed imaging methods for analysis impact brain lesion sites sizes on Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Fractional Anisotropy (FA). order to reflect micro-struc...

In this study long-term observation of 12 patients with aphasia secondary to severe closed head trauma took place. The most frequent symptoms were amnestic aphasia and verbal paraphasia. Only one patient with a constant slow wave EEG focus in the dominant hemisphere had severe receptive symptoms. In all other patients the aphasia recovered rather well, though not totally, but the presence and d...

This paper describes a quick aphasia battery (QAB) that aims to provide a reliable and multidimensional assessment of language function in about a quarter of an hour, bridging the gap between comprehensive batteries that are time-consuming to administer, and rapid screening instruments that provide limited detail regarding individual profiles of deficits. The QAB is made up of eight subtests, e...

BACKGROUND Individuals with aphasia are often excluded from studies exploring poststroke cognition because so many of the standard cognitive assessments rely on language ability. Our primary objective was to examine the association between performance on cognitive tests and performance on comprehension and naming tests in poststroke aphasia. Second, we aimed to determine the association between...

This study aimed to verify the existence of a double aphasia/apraxia dissociation. Apraxic patients without aphasia and aphasic patients without apraxia were included in a consecutive series of patients with cortical or subcortical CT documented vascular lesions in the left hemisphere. Of 699 patients, 10 were found to be apraxic but not aphasic and 149 aphasic but not apraxic. These findings i...

The extent of recovery from aphasia following ischemic stroke has been evaluated by a quantitative method. The greatest improvement was observed during the first 3 months following onset. The rate of recovery was similar for expression and for comprehension, but comprehension was usually less disturbed than expression. Final prognosis depends on the type of aphasia (the poorest prognosis was fo...

We randomly assigned 33 patients with left hemisphere stroke, limb apraxia, and aphasia to an apraxia or a control (aphasia) treatment group. Before and after each treatment, patients underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological testing battery and a caregiver evaluation of patient's activities of daily life (ADL) independence. Apraxia severity was related with ADL independence. Control (aphasi...

The Impact of Intensity of Aphasia Therapy on Recovery To the Editor: In a 2003 article in Stroke, Bhogal et al1 concluded intensive aphasia therapy ( 9 hours of treatment per week for 11 weeks) had a greater impact on speech and language outcomes for aphasic stroke patients than less intensive treatment ( 2 hours of treatment per week for 23 weeks). Findings from this article have been used to...

Despite accruing evidence for relative preservation of episodic memory in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (previously semantic dementia), the neural basis for this remains unclear, particularly in light of their well-established hippocampal involvement. We recently investigated the Papez network of memory structures across pathological subtypes of behavioural variant frontot...

The impact of aphasia on the everyday life Greek-speaking people with (PWA) is often underestimated by rehabilitation clinicians. This study explores adaptation and psychometric properties Greek (GR) version Aphasia Impact Questionnaire-21 (AIQ-21-GR) to address this issue. aim determine reliability validity AIQ-21. AIQ-21-GR was administered 69 stroke survivors, 47 22 without aphasia. data wer...