rTMS can improve post-stroke apraxia of speech. A case study

Apraxia of Speech (AoS) is a rare disorder of motor speech planning distinct from both aphasia and dysarthria. It is characterized by inconsistent articulatory errors imposing a trial-and-error approximation to a target word, slow speech rate, segmentation of syllables, sound distortions and substitutions [1]. At difference with aphasia, in fact, in AoS errors are non-linguistic in nature (i.e. they are neither lexical nor morphological) and other language-related abilities (i.e. reading and auditory comprehension and writing) are usually preserved.

Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - December 10, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Calogero Malfitano, Elisabetta Banco, Angela Rossetti, Carlotta Casati, Chiara Malloggi, Stefano Scarano, Luigi Tesio Source Type: research