Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is commonly observed on neuroimaging among
elderly individuals and is recognized as a major vascular contributor to dementia, cognitive …

Cognitive impairment after stroke is common and can cause disability with major impacts on
quality of life and independence. There are also indirect effects of cognitive impairment on …

Deficits following stroke are classically attributed to focal damage, but recent evidence
suggests a key role of distributed brain network disruption. We measured resting functional …

Behavioural deficits in stroke reflect both structural damage at the site of injury, and
widespread network dysfunction caused by structural, functional, and metabolic …

Most individuals who experience aphasia after a stroke recover to some extent, with the
majority of gains taking place in the first year. The nature and time course of this recovery …

A long-held view is that stroke causes many distinct neurological syndromes due to damage
of specialized cortical and subcortical centers. However, it is unknown if a syndrome-based …

Abstract Language impairment, or aphasia, is a disabling symptom that affects at least one
third of individuals after stroke. Some affected individuals will spontaneously recover partial …

Previous functional imaging studies of chronic stroke patients with aphasia suggest that
recovery of language occurs in a pre-existing, bilateral network with an upregulation of …

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 …

Spatial neglect is often perceived as a “heterogeneous collection of symptoms” with
controversial anatomical correlates. However, a clear framework for core and satellite …