Aphasia, the loss or impairment of language caused by brain damage, is one of the most
devastating cognitive impairments of stroke. Aphasia is present in 21–38% of acute stroke …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to review treatment studies of semantic feature
analysis (SFA) for persons with aphasia. The review documents how SFA is used, appraises …

Background: Impairments of word retrieval and production are a common and distressing
feature of aphasia, and much clinical time is devoted to attempts at their remediation. There …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an innovative technique recently shown to
improve language outcomes even in neurodegenerative conditions such as primary …

Opinion statement Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disease that
primarily affects language functions and often begins in the fifth or sixth decade of life. The …

Background: One application of a task, such as word-picture matching or repetition, has
been demonstrated to affect subsequent picture naming ('facilitation'or 'priming') in both …

Though aphasia is primarily characterized by impairments in the comprehension and/or
expression of language, research has shown that patients with aphasia also show deficits in …

Word-finding difficulty is typically an early and frustrating symptom of primary progressive
aphasia (PPA), prompting investigations of lexical retrieval treatment in PPA. This study …

Individuals with left-hemisphere damage often have concomitant impairment of spoken and
written language. Whereas some treatment studies have shown that reading paired with …

Anomia is a complex, commonly occurring symptom of aphasia with different underlying
causes. A number of behavioral approaches to rehabilitation of anomia have been …