Structural plasticity of the ventral stream and aphasia recovery

ET McKinnon, J Fridriksson, GR Glenn… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Restrengthening of the residual language network is likely to be crucial for speech recovery
in poststroke aphasia. Eight participants with chronic aphasia received intensive speech …

Change in right inferior longitudinal fasciculus integrity is associated with naming recovery in subacute poststroke aphasia

M Blom-Smink, M Verly, K Spielmann… - … and Neural Repair, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Despite progress made in understanding functional reorganization patterns
underlying recovery in subacute aphasia, the relation between recovery and changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Early white matter connectivity and plasticity in post stroke aphasia recovery

K Schevenels, R Gerrits, R Lemmens, B De Smedt… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 - Elsevier
A disruption of white matter connectivity is negatively associated with language (recovery) in
patients with aphasia after stroke, and behavioral gains have been shown to coincide with …

Functional MRI evidence for reorganization of language networks after stroke

R Li, N Mukadam, S Kiran - Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we review fMRI evidence for language reorganization in individuals with
poststroke aphasia. Several studies in the current literature have utilized fMRI as a tool to …

Neuroimaging of stroke recovery from aphasia–Insights into plasticity of the human language network

G Hartwigsen, D Saur - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The role of left and right hemisphere brain regions in language recovery after stroke-induced
aphasia remains controversial. Here, we summarize how neuroimaging studies increase the …

Cortical microstructural changes associated with treated aphasia recovery

AJ Chang, J Wilmskoetter, J Fridriksson… - Annals of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To investigate the hypothesis that language recovery in post‐stroke aphasia is
associated with structural brain changes. Methods We evaluated whether treatment‐induced …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional roles of the ventral stream in language models: advanced segmental quantification in post-stroke aphasic patients

J Zhang, X Wei, S Xie, Z Zhou, D Shang, R Ji… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In the dual-route language model, the dorsal pathway is known for sound-to-motor mapping,
but the role of the ventral stream is controversial. With the goal of enhancing our …

[HTML][HTML] Fixel-based evidence of microstructural damage in crossing pathways improves language mapping in post-stroke aphasia

J Zhang, W Zheng, D Shang, Y Chen, S Zhong, J Ye… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The complex crossing-fiber characteristics in the dual-stream system have been
ignored by traditional diffusion tensor models regarding disconnections in post-stroke …

[HTML][HTML] Types of naming errors in chronic post-stroke aphasia are dissociated by dual stream axonal loss

ET McKinnon, J Fridriksson, A Basilakos, G Hickok… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The types of errors during speech production can vary across individuals with chronic post-
stroke aphasia, possibly due to the location and extent of brain damage. In this study, we …

Estimating effects of graded white matter damage and binary tract disconnection on post-stroke language impairment

J Geller, M Thye, D Mirman - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the critical importance of close replications in strengthening and advancing scientific
knowledge, there are inherent challenges to conducting replications of lesion-based studies …