Intensive training for aphasia: Even older patients can improve
Older adults who have suffered from aphasia for a long time can nevertheless improve their language function and maintain these improvements in the long term, according to a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 8, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Intensive training for aphasia: Even older patients can improve
(University of Montreal) Older adults who have suffered from aphasia for a long time can nevertheless improve their language function and maintain these improvements in the long term. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
RCT finds memantine of no benefit in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Source: Lancet Neurology
Area: News
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration or frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a common cause of dementia in individuals who develop symptoms before age 65 years. It encompasses three core clinical syndromes: behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and two primary progressive aphasias (PPA): semantic dementia and progressive non-fluent aphasia. BvFTD is the most common form of the disease and features prominent social and behavioural deficits as well as executive dysfunction. There are no medications approved to treat FTD, and only a handful of randomised, placebo-controlled tri...
Source: NeLM - News - January 4, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
