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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"post-stroke aphasia"”.
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Inner speech in post-stroke aphasia : a behavioural and imaging study
Patients with aphasia often complain that there is a poor correlation between the words they think (inner speech) and the words they say (overt speech). Previous studies show that there are some cases in which inner speech is preserved while overt speech is impaired, and vice versa. However, these …
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Telepractice in the Communication Treatment of Individuals with Post-stroke Aphasia: Systematic Review
… nature of the condition and treatment foci in aphasia, telepractice has been identified as a potential mode for intervention to persons with aphasia (PWA) in the field of speech-language pathology. Based on the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (2005), telepractice is considered a …
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Learning ability in post-stroke aphasia : success, strategy use and implications for therapy
Aphasia is an impairment in the expression or comprehension of language that results from stroke, traumatic brain injury or progressive neurological disease. Approximately one million people in the United States suffer from aphasia, with the prevalence projected to increase to two million by 2020. …
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Cortical Tracking of Syntax in Post-Stroke Aphasia: An EEG Investigation of Disrupted Sentence Comprehension
<p>Purpose. People with aphasia following stroke commonly exhibit marked difficulties in sentence comprehension, referred to as receptive agrammatism. However, theories of receptive agrammatism differ in their assumptions regarding the underlying mechanisms of impairment. Representation-based …
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Eine TMS-Studie zur funktionellen Verbindung zwischen kortikalem motorischem Handareal und Sprachareal bei Schlaganfallpatienten mit Restaphasie
… connectivity in patients who have recovered from post-stroke aphasia. In the study the excitability of the right-hand and the left-hand motor cortex during reading aloud was investigated in those patients. The hypothesis was that the excitability of the hand motor cortex of the nondominant …
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Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers
… should not be removed, as this would result in postoperative language deficits. In this thesis, we focused on the role of production tasks using finite verbs and the evaluation of their ability to assess language processing in comparison with the current gold standard (i.e., object naming). As a …
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Perspectives on ICT-delivered aphasia rehabilitation: exploring feasibility, usability and acceptance of this mode of rehabilitation
… can provide positive outcomes for people with aphasia after stroke. The intensity of therapy is a key component for successful rehabilitation outcomes but, due to resource constraints, it can be a challenge for services to provide intensive face-to-face rehabilitation. The availability of …
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The neurofunctional correlates of sentence processing: focus on difficulties of morphosyntactic processing and thematic role assignment in aphasia
Left hemisphere damage is a frequent cause of aphasia. Analyses of deviant linguistic behaviors provide valuable information about the functional architecture of language. Correlating specific language difficulties with damage to the brain helps shed light on the relationships between language and …