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How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness
When he looks back on the past year—a year in which he nearly died, became a U.S. Senator, and nearly died again—it is the debate that John Fetterman identifies as the ­breaking point. “The debate lit the mitch,” he says, then shakes his head in frustration and tries again. The right word is there in his brain, but he struggles to get it out. “Excuse me, that should be lit the mitch—” He stops and tries again. “Lit the match,” he says finally. Oct. 25, 2022: the date is lodged in his mind. “I knew I had to do it,” he tells me. “I knew that the vote...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Molly Ball Tags: Uncategorized Congress Cover Story Exclusive feature uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news

Assessing Depression and its Correlates Among Post-stroke Survivors with Aphasia in Sri Lanka
This study attempted to identify the individuals with depression among people with aphasia, to understand the influence of socio-demographic factors on depression, and to understand the relationship PSD has with language impairment and physical disability. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 78 participants recruited from three hospital-based speech and language therapy clinics in Sri Lanka. Sinhala Language Aphasia Assessment, Peradeniya Depression Scale, and Barthel Index were used to measure language skills, depression symptoms, and physical disability. From the sample, 25.6% (n  = 20) were having depression. ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - June 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effect and safety of C7 neurotomy at the intervertebral foramen in patients with chronic poststroke aphasia: a multicentre, randomised, controlled study protocol
This study will explore the efficacy of NC7 at the intervertebral foramen for improving chronic poststroke aphasia. Methods and analysis This study protocol reports a multicentre, randomised, assessor-blinded active-controlled trial. A total of 50 patients with chronic poststroke aphasia for over 1 year and with a aphasia quotient calculated by Western Aphasia Battery Aphasia Quotient (WAB-AQ) score below 93.8 will be recruited. Participants will be randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups (25 individuals each) to receive NC7 plus intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT), or iSLT alone programme. The primary outcome is the ...
Source: BMJ Open - May 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Li, T., Feng, J., Hu, R., Lv, M., Chang, W., Ma, X., Qi, W., Zhang, Y., Chen, X., Ding, L., Gu, Y., Xu, W. Tags: Open access, Neurology Source Type: research

Know your stroke mimics
A developmentally normal and previously well 15-year-old boy, presented to hospital with a 4-hour history of gradually worsening, throbbing, left-sided headache spreading across his whole head. Four hours prior, he could not read properly or string words together and felt tired. He developed a headache followed by expressive aphasia, agitation and vomiting. A right-sided lower facial droop was noted that resolved in a couple of hours. He played a rugby match in the morning and there was a history of minor head injury without loss of consciousness. He started to develop self-resolving apnoeic episodes each lasting for 30&nd...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - March 17, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Hanna, D., Holland, J., Lichtblau, N., Maduakor, C., Khan, F., Kerr, T. Tags: Epilogue Source Type: research

Effect of an extension speech training program based on Chinese idioms in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A randomized controlled trial
by Sun Pei, Li Weiwei, Zhang Mengqin, He Xiaojun BackgroundChinese idioms have potential to act as preliminary training material in studies on post-stroke aphasia. ObjectiveTo explore an extension speech training program that takes Chinese idioms as context and expands them into characters, words, sentences and paragraphs and evaluate the effects of this program in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. MethodsThis was a randomized controlled trial. We recruited patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University from January 2021 to January 2022. Participants were randomly assi...
Source: PLoS One - February 8, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Sun Pei Source Type: research

The excess costs of hospitalization for acute stroke in people with communication impairment: a Stroke123 data linkage sub-study
To describe the costs of hospital care for acute stroke for patients with aphasia or dysarthria.
Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - February 7, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Emily L Brogan, Joosup Kim, Rohan S Grimley, Sarah J Wallace, Caroline Baker, Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Nadine E Andrew, Monique F Kilkenny, Erin Godecke, Miranda L Rose, Dominique A Cadilhac Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

050 Feasibility of an automated assessment to measure cognition and mood in the acute stroke setting
Discussion Screening was adapted due to Covid pandemic and utilising remote consent and participa- tion allowed the project to continue.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 12, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Bell, S., Harkness, K., Roman, M., Gardner, J., Richards, E., Howe, J., Sikaonga, M., Mirheidari, B., Christensen, H., Blackburn, D. Tags: Poster presentations Source Type: research

Amnestic aphasia in MELAS can be epileptogenic
Referring to the article by Sakata et al. we disagree with the diagnosis “thalamic aphasia” [1]. Since thalamic lesions can be associated with status epilepticus (SE) [2], it is crucial that SE has been ruled out2. Therefore, we should know if creatine-kinase (CK) was elevated to 5883 U/l due to myopathy, the stroke-like lesion (SLL), cardiomyopathy, or a SE. Becaus e periodic lateralised epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) can be the manifestation of a non-convulsive/minimal convulsive SE [3], we should know if a SE was recorded on electroencephalography (EEG) on hospital-day 8 and why midazolam was administered.
Source: Brain and Development - June 14, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Josef Finsterer Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Hospital-based Buprenorphine/Naloxone Initiation in a Patient With Limited Communication Abilities: A Case Report
North America's opioid crisis highlights the profound need for low-barrier access to opioid agonist therapy (OAT) for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). This case describes a 33-year-old female with a history of opioid and stimulant use disorder admitted to hospital after a left middle cerebral artery ischemic stroke with resulting aphasia. After medical stabilization, she consented to buprenorphine/naloxone through limited verbal and written communication. After 14 days of titration, she was stabilized on 14 to 3.5 milligrams of buprenorphine/naloxone daily. Buprenorphine/naloxone initiation and titration is pati...
Source: Journal of Addiction Medicine - November 1, 2021 Category: Addiction Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research

Cardioembolic Stroke Due to Cardiac Sarcoidosis Diagnosed by Pathological Evaluation of the Retrieved Thrombus
Intern Med. 2021 Oct 26. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.7963-21. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA 70-year-old woman undergoing glucocorticoid therapy for cardiac sarcoidosis was brought to our hospital with the sudden onset of right hemiplegia and aphasia. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a high diffusion-weighted imaging signal in the left frontotemporal lobe and disruption of blood flow in the M1 segment of the left middle cerebral artery. Hence, she underwent thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy, resulting in marked improvement in her neurological symptoms. A pathologic evaluation of the thrombus suggested its ...
Source: Internal Medicine - October 28, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Shogo Minomo Masahiko Ichijo Yohei Sato Ryoichi Miyazaki Takeshi Amino Tomoyuki Kamata Source Type: research

Aphasia Induced by Infratentorial Ischemic Stroke: Two Case Reports
Aphasia induced by an infratentorial stroke has rarely been reported, and its mechanism has not been fully identified. We evaluated two individuals who had been admitted to Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital in Kumamoto, Japan, due to acute ischemic stroke in order to determine whether their aphasia was induced by an infratentorial stroke. The first patient, a 59-year-old man with a history of left parietal embolic stroke with very mild sequelae of anomia, developed Wernicke’s aphasia, nonfluent speech, and right limb ataxia as a result of the stroke. The second patient, a 76-year-old woman with a history of chronic renal failu...
Source: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology - June 1, 2021 Category: Neurology Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research

Bridging Therapy for Acute Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Takayasu Arteritis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
We report a rare case of a patient with TA initially presenting with AIS treated with bridging therapy with full recovery of neurological function. Bridging therapy should be taken into consideration for AIS in patients with TA. Further study is needed in this regard.
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 30, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Tumor Embolism Through Right-to-Left Shunt Due to Venous Invasion of Esophageal Carcinoma
A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with right hemiparesis and global aphasia. Perfusion computed tomography imaging revealed ischemic penumbra in the middle cerebral artery territory. Angiography showed left middle cerebral artery occlusion. Mechanical thrombectomy with one pass was performed, and successful recanalization was obtained. Embolic material was retrieved; it contained tumor fragments with atypical keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. Contrast computed tomography imaging indicated tumor invasion into the superior vena cava, and contrast transcranial Doppler indicated the presence of a right-to-left...
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 1, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Suguru Araki, Kota Maekawa, Kazuto Kobayashi, Takanori Sano, Tadashi Yabana, Masunari Shibata, Fumitaka Miya Tags: Case Report Source Type: research