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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

Communication and quality of life outcomes from an interprofessional intensive, comprehensive, aphasia program (ICAP).
CONCLUSION: The results provide evidence of linguistic and quality of life change in individuals with chronic aphasia who were treated in an interprofessional ICAP. PMID: 27456043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - July 25, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Hoover EL, Caplan DN, Waters GS, Carney A Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

The perspectives of adults with aphasia and their team members regarding the importance of nine life areas for rehabilitation: a pilot investigation.
This study aimed to describe and compare the perspectives of adults with aphasia, their significant others and their speech-language pathologists (SLPs) regarding the importance of nine life areas for the rehabilitation of adults with aphasia. METHOD: A total of 15 adults with expressive aphasia rated the importance of nine life areas using the Talking Mats™ framework. A questionnaire was used to obtain the ratings of 15 of their significant others and the 15 SLPs treating them. RESULTS: Most life areas were rated as important to work on in rehabilitation by most participants. The adults with aphasia rated the ...
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - July 7, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Pettit LK, Tönsing KM, Dada S Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Stress and depression scales in aphasia: relation between the aphasia depression rating scale, stroke aphasia depression questionnaire-10, and the perceived stress scale.
CONCLUSIONS: The SADQ-10 and ADRS appear to be acceptable measures of depressive symptoms in aphasia patients. Measurements of perceived stress may also be an important factor in assessment of depressive symptoms. PMID: 27348232 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - June 26, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Laures-Gore JS, Farina M, Moore E, Russell S Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Assessing chronic stroke survivors with aphasia sheds light on prevalence of spatial neglect.
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the need to administer functional neglect assessments in left-brain stroke and to include individuals with aphasia in research. PMID: 27322860 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - June 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Hreha K, Mulry C, Gross M, Jedziniak T, Gramas N, Ohevshalom L, Sheridan A, Szabo G, Davison C, Barrett AM Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

A pilot study examining the impact of aphasia camp participation on quality of life for people with aphasia.
This study provides preliminary evidence that aphasia camp participation can result in improved outcomes for PWA across a range of domains. Aphasia camps provide a unique intervention for PWA and caregivers to experience therapeutic and recreational activities, respite and create social connections in a supported communication environment. Future studies should recruit a greater number of participants, employ control groups, and examine outcomes for caregivers. PMID: 27309276 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - June 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Kim ES, Ruelling A, Garcia JR, Kajner R Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Group therapy as a social context for aphasia recovery: a pilot, observational study in an acute rehabilitation hospital.
CONCLUSION: In the aphasia group treatment described in this study, participants initiated more communication, with greater diversity of expressive modalities and more varied communicative purposes. Participants in group therapy also showed an increased tendency to communicate for the purpose of social closeness. These findings suggest that there are important differences in the communication of patients participating in group vs. individual speech therapy for treatment of acute, severe non-fluent aphasia. PMID: 27077989 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - March 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Fama ME, Baron CR, Hatfield B, Turkeltaub PE Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Preferred Visuographic Images to Support Reading by People with Chronic Aphasia.
CONCLUSIONS: All participants preferred high-context photographs rather than iconic images or portraits as potential supports to facilitate reading activities. Differences in opinions emerged across participants regarding the amount of preferred content included in high context images. PMID: 27077988 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - March 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Knollman-Porter K, Brown J, Hux K, Wallace SE, Uchtman E Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Age and aphasia: a review of presence, type, recovery and clinical outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: Stroke is a condition of the elderly. However, age appears to only influence likelihood of aphasia and aphasia type. PMID: 26916396 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - February 25, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Ellis C, Urban S Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Reliability of the 36-item version of the Token Test in patients with poststroke aphasia.
CONCLUSION: This version of the Token Test can be used to assess mild disorder of oral language comprehension. However, further clearer instructions for administration and scoring may improve the test reliability. PMID: 25779623 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - March 17, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Paci M, Lorenzini C, Fioravanti E, Poli C, Lombardi B Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Speech language pathologists' opinions of constraint-induced language therapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Some SLPs hold significant concerns with the administration of CILT, particularly related to its dosing and reimbursement parameters. Additional work is needed to investigate the issues that were identified in this survey using qualitative methods with SLPs and people with aphasia and to examine modified CILT protocols. PMID: 25150665 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - July 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Page SJ, Wallace SE Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Yogic breathing and ayurveda in aphasia: a case study.
Conclusion: Although case studies lead to limited conclusions, changes were observed for this individual using Ayurvedic medicine. Given the changes in language and some aspects of cognition seen in this patient, further exploration of the effectiveness of yogic breathing and Ayurvedic medicine in the treatment of poststroke aphasia is warranted. PMID: 24985394 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - May 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Mohapatra B, Marshall RS, Laures-Gore J Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Aphasia and swallowing problems in subjects with incident stroke in rural northern Tanzania: a case-control study.
Conclusions: This is the first attempt to describe aphasia incidence in a sub-Saharan African language. Further work on the psychometric properties of the screening instrument is warranted. Given that it delivers a relatively coarse indication of language disturbance, it is likely that incidence of aphasia in the current cohort is underestimated. PMID: 24521840 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - January 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Miller N, Gray WK, Howitt SC, Jusabani A, Swai M, Mugusi F, Jones MP, Walker RW Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with speech and language training in early aphasia rehabilitation: a randomized double-blind controlled pilot study.
Conclusions: Inhibitory rTMS applied to the right frontal language homologue is not effective for all poststroke aphasia patients, although it might benefit selected patients. PMID: 23841973 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - May 1, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Seniów J, Waldowski K, Leśniak M, Iwański S, Czepiel W, Członkowska A Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Review of transcranial direct current stimulation in poststroke recovery.
Abstract Motor impairment, dysphagia, aphasia, and visual impairment are common disabling residual deficits experienced by stroke survivors. Recently, many novel rehabilitative modalities have been investigated for their potential to ameliorate such deficits and to improve functional outcomes. Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), have emerged as a promising tool to facilitate stroke recovery. tDCS can alter cortical excitability to induce brain plasticity by modulating the lesioned, contralesional, or bilateral hemispheres with various stimulation modali...
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - January 1, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Feng WW, Bowden MG, Kautz S Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

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