One-third of stroke survivors experience deficits in word retrieval as a core characteristic of
their aphasia, which is frustrating, socially limiting and disabling for their professional and …

Recent studies on the remediation of speech disorders suggest that providing visual
information of speech articulators may contribute to improve speech production. In this study …

Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects processing of language at different levels
(eg, acoustic, phonological, semantic). Recording brain activity via Electroencephalography …

Anomia, a word‐finding difficulty, is a frequent consequence of poststroke linguistic
disturbance, associated with fluent and nonfluent aphasia that needs long‐term specific and …

Background To date, functional imaging studies of treatment-induced recovery from chronic
aphasia only assessed short-term treatment effects after intensive language training. In the …

Aphasia, the impairment to understand or produce language, is a frequent disorder after
stroke with devastating effects. Conventional speech and language therapy include each …

It has been suggested that gesture can play a role in the treatment of naming impairments in
aphasia, however investigation is still sparse, especially when compared to research on …

Background: Verb production difficulties are well documented in individuals with aphasia.
Yet there remains limited evidence regarding the efficacy of treatments for verb retrieval in …

Aphasia is an acquired disorder caused by damage, most commonly due to stroke, to brain
regions involved in speech and language. While language impairment is the defining …

Brain imaging techniques illustrate the plastic potential even of the adult human brain in
healthy subjects as in patients with peripheral or central lesions. Recovery of lost function …