Chronic Broca's aphasia is caused by damage to Broca's and Wernicke's areas

J Fridriksson, P Fillmore, D Guo, C Rorden - Cerebral Cortex, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… to the posterior portion of Broca's area, the pars opercularis, is associated with Broca's
suggest that chronic Broca's aphasia is not typically caused by damage to a single region. This …

Ischemia in broca area is associated with broca aphasia more reliably in acute than in chronic stroke

E Ochfeld, M Newhart, J Molitoris, R Leigh, L Cloutman… - Stroke, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Broca area is more strongly associated with Broca aphasia in acute stroke than in chronic
… Earlier studies selected patients who had chronic aphasia only. Consistent with the majority …

Chronic apraxia of speech and Broca's area

LA Trupe, DD Varma, Y Gomez, D Race, R Leigh… - Stroke, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
… neighboring anterior insula were associated with more severe forms of AOS and aphasia,
consistent with our study. Likewise, in a very recent study, using a voxel-based analysis and a …

Improved picture naming in chronic aphasia after TMS to part of right Broca's area: an open-protocol study

MA Naeser, PI Martin, M Nicholas, EH Baker… - Brain and language, 2005 - Elsevier
… This is the first study to report lasting, improved naming at 2 months and 8 months following
application of rTMS in chronic aphasia. The application of 1 Hz rTMS to a portion of R Broca’…

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of Broca's area in chronic aphasia: a controlled outcome study

C Volpato, M Cavinato, F Piccione, M Garzon… - Behavioural brain …, 2013 - Elsevier
… With the exception of one patient, the overall results suggest that in chronic aphasic patients
the off-line tDCS protocol applied in this study is not effective in improving noun and verb …

Therapy-induced neuroplasticity in chronic aphasia

K Marcotte, D Adrover-Roig, B Damien… - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
… in chronic aphasia is associated with recruitment of areas in the left hemisphere. … , we cannot
ascertain that only damage to Broca's area predicts patients' response to SFA; however, this …

Is Broca's area critical for speech and language? Evidence from Lesion-Symptom Mapping in chronic aphasia

TJ Herron, K Schendel, BC Curran, SJ Lwi… - Frontiers in Language …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
… that Broca’s area is normally recruited in the healthy brain for speech-language functions,
but the current data show that it is apparently not critical for such functions in chronic aphasia

Measuring and inducing brain plasticity in chronic aphasia

J Fridriksson - Journal of communication disorders, 2011 - Elsevier
… magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the right hemisphere homologue of Broca's area may
decrease activity in this region and, as a result, improve naming by persons with nonfluent …

The neural correlates of semantic feature analysis in chronic aphasia: discordant patterns according to the etiology

K Marcotte, AI Ansaldo - Seminars in Speech and Language, 2010 - thieme-connect.com
… of phonological therapy in two patients with chronic aphasia. The patient with the larger lesion
… in the former patient were observed in the right frontal area, homologous to Broca's area. …

Bihemispheric stimulation over left and right inferior frontal region enhances recovery from apraxia of speech in chronic aphasia

P Marangolo, V Fiori, S Cipollari… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Here, eight aphasic persons with apraxia of speech underwent intensive language therapy
Broca's area and cathodic contralesional stimulation over the right homologue of Broca's area