Robotic arm may help to rehabilitate chronic stroke victims, finds new study
(New York University) New research published in Frontiers in Neurology by NYU researcher Adam Buchwald finds that robotic arm rehabilitation in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, the loss of ability to understand or express speech, may promote speech and language function recovery. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Aphasia Treatment Potential High Note of Musician Brain Study Aphasia Treatment Potential High Note of Musician Brain Study
What brain imaging differences emerge when professional musicians listen to their own genre of music vs another? How do these changes compare to neuroimaging of nonmusicians?Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation may Soon Reach More Aphasia Patients
Sometimes in research, a smaller finding can open the door to big possibilities. Neuroscientists at the University of South Carolina (USC) and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have collaborated on a study in the field of aphasia that has successfully paved the way for a large clinical trial. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - September 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Spreading the word: Noninvasive brain stimulation may soon reach more aphasia patients
(Medical University of South Carolina) In an article published online on Aug. 20, 2018 by the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology, researchers tested the use of transcranial direct current stimulation in stroke patients with aphasia. Their results justify the creation of a large clinical trial to test the new treatment in a number of patients who have lost some or all of their use of language after stroke. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Brain Stimulation May Significantly Improve Post-Stroke Aphasia Brain Stimulation May Significantly Improve Post-Stroke Aphasia
Researchers looking to offer relief to people who have aphasia after experiencing a stroke assessed noninvasive brain stimulation as a way to boost gains from speech therapy.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Electrical Brain Stimulation May Improve Post-Stroke Aphasia (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with long-term aphasia named more words with noninvasive technique (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - August 20, 2018 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Suicide as a result of stereotypic behaviour in a case with semantic dementia - Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, Tokairin T, Kawakatsu S, Otani K.
We report the case of a 50-year-old man with SD accompanied by stereotypic behaviour who committe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Metastatic Adenocarcinoma Involving Atypical Meningioma Metastatic Adenocarcinoma Involving Atypical Meningioma
A patient with a history of stage IV lung adenocarcinoma presented to the emergency department with aphasia. What was the cause?Applied Radiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology Journal Article Source Type: news
New treatment may improve speech after stroke
A new treatment has been shown to significantly improve the speech and word production of stroke patients with aphasia. It uses special software which encourages patients to produce words increasingly quickly. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - April 26, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news
Some can combat dementia by enlisting still-healthy parts of the brain
(University of Arizona) People with primary progressive aphasia, a rare dementia that initially attacks the language center of the brain, recruit other areas of the brain to decipher sentences. People who have had strokes or injuries to the brain have been shown to enlist intact brain regions to accomplish tasks. The new study is one of the first to show that people with a neurodegenerative disease can call upon intact areas of the brain for help. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 11, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Dr. Boukrina of Kessler Foundation explores treatments for reading deficits after stroke
(Kessler Foundation) 'The Trust's funding has enabled us identify people by type of reading problem, i.e., whether their primary problem is with word appearance, word meaning, or word sounds.' Our goal is to develop criteria for identifying high-risk patients on brain scan while they are hospitalized. Fundamental to effective intervention is early identification of reading problems. 'To identify people early on, we are looking at areas of brain damage associated with aphasia and type of reading difficulties.' (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Amyloid Imaging Positivity Differs by Primary Progressive Aphasia Variant Amyloid Imaging Positivity Differs by Primary Progressive Aphasia Variant
Amyloid positivity, according to positron emission tomography (PET) findings, differs among the main clinical variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), researchers report.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medscape Today News Source Type: news
Thomas Keneally: death is not the fly in the cosmic ointment. It is the cosmic ointment
Life is strong in people – we didn’t get to be wreckers of the planet without a mighty life force in us. But accepting death is one of the contentments of ageWhen I was 16, I was given a wonderful anthology, Poetry of the English-Speaking World, as an English prize. I recommend it to this day, since I have returned to it often between 1952 and now. And early in it occurs a poem which brought me up short then, at demented 16, and speaks still, at a somewhat differently demented 81.When I say “demented” I do not yet mean the aphasia which has disassembled the splendid cerebral mechanisms of some of my contemporaries....
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Thomas Keneally Tags: Books Culture Society Poetry Death and dying Thomas Keneally Cancer Medical research Health Source Type: news
Our brain omits grammatical elements when it has limited resources
(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities) A study of the use of pronouns by French speakers with agrammatic aphasia shows that grammatical pronouns are significantly more impaired in speech than lexical ones. The findings support a new theory of grammar which suggests that grammatical elements contain secondary information that speakers with limited cognitive resources can omit from their speech and still make sense. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - October 11, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
