Understanding, facilitating and predicting aphasia recovery after rehabilitation

M Varkanitsa, S Kiran - International journal of speech-language …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: This paper reviews several studies whose aim was to understand the nature of
language recovery in chronic aphasia and identify predictors of how people may recover …

Grammatical parallelism in aphasia: A lesion-symptom mapping study

W Matchin, DB den Ouden, A Basilakos… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Sentence structure, or syntax, is potentially a uniquely creative aspect of the human mind.
Neuropsychological experiments in the 1970s suggested parallel syntactic production and …

Focal brain lesions causing acquired amusia map to a common brain network

AJ Sihvonen, MA Ferguson, V Chen… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Music is a universal human attribute. The study of amusia, a neurologic music processing
deficit, has increasingly elaborated our view on the neural organization of the musical brain …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability and validity of DTI-based indirect disconnection measures

AR Smits, MJE van Zandvoort, NF Ramsey… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 - Elsevier
White matter connections enable the interaction within and between brain networks. Brain
lesions can cause structural disconnections that disrupt networks and thereby cognitive …

Dynamic alterations of spontaneous neural activity in post-stroke aphasia: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

L Xu, H Wei, Z Sun, T Chu, M Li, R Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background and purpose The dynamic alterations in spontaneous neural activity of the brain
during the acute phase of post-stroke aphasia (PSA) remain unclear. Therefore, in this study …

Common and distinct patterns underlying different linguistic tasks: multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping in poststroke patients

Y Jiang, G Gong - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies have been devoted to neural mechanisms of a variety of linguistic tasks
(eg speech comprehension and production). To date, however, whether and how the neural …

Function-guided differences of arcuate fascicle and inferior fronto-occipital fascicle tractography as diagnostic indicators for surgical risk stratification

L Kram, A Schroeder, B Meyer, SM Krieg… - Brain Structure and …, 2024 - Springer
Background Several patients with language-eloquent gliomas face language deterioration
postoperatively. Persistent aphasia is frequently associated with damage to subcortical …

Altered spontaneous brain activity in Poststroke aphasia: a resting-state fmri study

H Li, H Zhang, S Xu, M Wang, J Zhang, J Liu, X Du… - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Purpose: Brain areas frequently implicated in language recovery after stroke comprise
perilesional sites in the left hemisphere and homotopic regions in the right hemisphere …

[HTML][HTML] Structural network topology associated with naming improvements following intensive aphasia therapy in post-stroke aphasia

TA Low, MJ Chilvers, H Zhu, HL Carlson… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
A stroke can disrupt the finely tuned language network resulting in aphasia, a language
impairment. Though many stroke survivors with aphasia recover within the first 6 months, a …

Reduced likelihood of the Poggendorff illusion in cerebellar strokes: a clinical and neuroimaging study

Y Higashiyama, M Kuroki, Y Kudo… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This study aimed to test our hypothesis that the cerebellum plays an important role in the
generation of the optical-geometric illusion known as the Poggendorff illusion, the …