Motor recovery in post-stroke patients with aphasia: the role of specific linguistic abilities.

CONCLUSIONS: Motor function at admission resulted as the variable that most affects the motor recovery of post-stroke patients with aphasia after rehabilitation. A linguistic test requiring also non-linguistic abilities, including attention and working memory (i.e. Token test) is an independent predictor as well.
PMID: 28322130 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - March 21, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Ginex V, Veronelli L, Vanacore N, Lacorte E, Monti A, Corbo M Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research