INTRODUCTION Aphasia is considered to be the most difficult disorders of speech-language communication, and is often companion by all forms of cerebrovascular disease. GOAL To determine the outcome of aphasia disorder a year after a stroke and stroke type influence on the outcome of aphasia disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed one-year outcome of aphasia disorders in patients who had...

A 45-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic man was in a hypoglycaemic coma for one month but recovered after continuous infusion of glucose and insulin. An isolated neurological deficit, motor aphasia, persisted after recovery from the coma. Repeated computerized tomography did not demonstrate any abnormal findings attributable to coma or aphasia. Precise follow-up examinations of aphasia showed ...

This article presents electrophysiological data on on-line syntactic processing during auditory sentence comprehension in patients with Broca's aphasia. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from the scalp while subjects listened to sentences that were either syntactically correct or contained violations of subject-verb agreement. Three groups of subjects were tested: Broca patien...

In this theoretical paper, we argue that the adoption of the social model to aphasia rehabilitation within group settings changes the metaphorical location of the boundaries between clinicians and clients. Despite a growing literature on group work for aphasia and social model applications for people with chronic aphasia, there has been almost no attention paid to how professional boundaries ar...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early poststroke aphasia rehabilitation effects and their functional MRI (fMRI) correlates were investigated in a pilot, controlled longitudinal study. METHODS Twelve patients with mild/moderate aphasia (8 Broca, 3 anomic, and 1 Wernicke) were randomly assigned to daily language rehabilitation for 2 weeks (starting 2.2 [mean] days poststroke) or no rehabilitation. The A...

We analyze the comprehension data in Broca's aphasia, pooled together by Berndt, Mitchum, and Haendinges (1996). We show that once analyzed properly, these data have statistical structure that is very similar to that revealed by the analysis in Grodzinsky, Pinango, Zurif, and Drai (1999). The suggestion that the latter authors doctored the data to obtain a desired outcome is as false as the cla...

The problem of the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres has its origin in studies of aphasia. In a report which received little attention at the time, Marc Dax maintained (1836) that aphasia was associated with lesions of the left hemisphere. Broca admitted in his earlier writings that both hemispheres might be involved in language functions but in his later observations he...

Abstract The selective vulnerability of morphology in agrammatic aphasia is often interpreted as evidence that closedclass items reside in a particular part of the brain (i.e., Broca's area); thus, damage to a part of the language processor maps onto behavior in a transparent fashion. We propose that the selective vulnerability of grammatical morphemes in receptive processing may be the result ...

There is still much to be done to understand the nature of aphasia and to elucidate the organization of the brain relative to behavior. Nevertheless, since the time of Paul Broca, who was the first to show, in 1861, that a particular lesion of the cerebral cortex could lead to a disorder of language (Broca, 1861, as cited in Hécaen & Dubois, 1969), our knowledge of cerebral organization related...