Aphasia - Rehabilitation
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke.

29 Sep 2009 Poole JL, Sadek J, Haaland KY. Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. OBJECTIVE: To examine 1-handed shoe tying performance and whether cognitive deficits more associated with left or right hemisphere ... Read more...

Issues and principles in service delivery to communicatively impaired minority bilingual adults in neurorehabilitation.

24 Aug 2009 Demographic and epidemiological trends coupled with health-care needs in minority populations highlight the imperative need to develop effective, culturally appropriate clinical approaches for minority adults with communication impairments. The ... Read more...

Aphasia among young patients with ischemic stroke on long-term follow-up.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate characteristics and long-term outcome of young patients with ischemic stroke (15-49 years at stroke onset) and aphasia. METHODS: Aphasia was defined as less than 10 points in the speech subscale of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Aphasia - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ipsilateral deficits in 1-handed shoe tying after left or right hemisphere stroke. 29 Sep 2009
• Issues and principles in service delivery to communicatively impaired minority bilingual adults in neurorehabilitation. 24 Aug 2009
• Aphasia among young patients with ischemic stroke on long-term follow-up. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychometric properties of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale (SAQOL-39) in a generic stroke population. 13 May 2009
• Parallel recovery in a bilingual aphasic: a neurolinguistic and fMRI study. 29 Apr 2009
• Rehabilitation of a patient with aphasia due to severe traumatic brain injury. 30 Mar 2009
• Patient-reported changes in communication after computer-based script training for aphasia. 30 Mar 2009
• Language and cognition in a bilingual child after traumatic brain injury in infancy: long-term plasticity and vulnerability. 30 Jan 2009
• [Intense language training for aphasia. Contribution of cognitive factors] 30 Jan 2009
• Intelligent assistive technology applications to dementia care: current capabilities, limitations, and future challenges. 30 Jan 2009
• Locomotion outcome in hemiplegic patients with middle cerebral artery infarction: the difference between right- and left-sided lesions. 30 Dec 2008
• MAAS (Multi-axial Aphasia System): realistic goal setting in aphasia rehabilitation. 29 Nov 2008
• Technology applications at the Adler aphasia center. 30 Oct 2008
• Variability in recovery from aphasia. 30 Oct 2008
• Neuroimaging and recovery of language in aphasia. 30 Oct 2008
• Evidence-based systematic review: effects of intensity of treatment and constraint-induced language therapy for individuals with stroke-induced aphasia. 29 Sep 2008
• [Neurogenic communication disorders: how effective are relaxation therapy and acupuncture?] 21 Sep 2008
• A standardization study of the Czech version of the Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MASTcz) in stroke patients and control subjects. 30 Aug 2008
• Use of fMRI in the study of chronic aphasia recovery after therapy: a case study. 30 Aug 2008
• A comparison of two theoretically driven treatments for verb inflection deficits in aphasia. Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Aphasia'

Definition: A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.

Descriptor UI: D001037

Alternative terms: Aphasia; Logasthenia; Logasthenias; Logagnosia; Logagnosias; Logamnesia; Logamnesias; Alogia; Alogias; Anepia; Anepias; Aphasia, Acquired; Acquired Aphasia; Aphasia, Ageusic; Ageusic Aphasia; Ageusic Aphasias; Aphasias, Ageusic; Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory; Aphasias, Auditory Discriminatory; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia; Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias; Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory; Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory; Aphasia, Commisural; Aphasias, Commisural; Commisural Aphasia; Commisural Aphasias; Aphasia, Functional; Aphasias, Functional; Functional Aphasia; Functional Aphasias; Aphasia, Global; Aphasias, Global; Global Aphasia; Global Aphasias; Dysphasia, Global; Dysphasias, Global; Global Dysphasia; Global Dysphasias; Aphasia, Syntactical; Aphasias, Syntactical; Syntactical Aphasia; Syntactical Aphasias; Aphasia, Intellectual; Aphasias, Intellectual; Intellectual Aphasia; Intellectual Aphasias; Aphasia, Mixed; Aphasias, Mixed; Mixed Aphasia; Mixed Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Ictal; Aphasia, Post Ictal; Aphasias, Post-Ictal; Post-Ictal Aphasia; Post-Ictal Aphasias; Aphasia, Post-Traumatic; Aphasia, Post Traumatic; Aphasias, Post-Traumatic; Post-Traumatic Aphasia; Post-Traumatic Aphasias; Aphasia, Semantic; Aphasias, Semantic; Semantic Aphasia; Semantic Aphasias; Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon; Dejerine Lichtheim Phenomenon; Phenomenon, Dejerine-Lichtheim; Lichtheim's Sign; Lichtheim Sign; Lichtheims Sign; Sign, Lichtheim's; Dysphasia; Aphasia, Progressive; Aphasias, Progressive; Progressive Aphasia; Progressive Aphasias; Aphasia, Graphomotor; Aphasias, Graphomotor; Graphomotor Aphasia; Graphomotor Aphasias;

Related Mesh Headings: Landau-Kleffner Syndrome;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800.100; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics