Neuroplasticity of language networks in aphasia: Advances, updates, and future challenges

S Kiran, CK Thompson - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Researchers have sought to understand how language is processed in the brain, how brain
damage affects language abilities, and what can be expected during the recovery period …

Neuroplasticity in post-stroke aphasia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of reorganization of language processing

SM Wilson, SM Schneck - Neurobiology of Language, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Recovery from aphasia is thought to depend on neural plasticity, that is, the functional
reorganization of surviving brain regions such that they take on new or expanded roles in …

How right hemisphere damage after stroke can impair speech comprehension

A Gajardo-Vidal, DL Lorca-Puls, TMH Hope… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Acquired language disorders after stroke are strongly associated with left hemisphere
damage. When language difficulties are observed in the context of right hemisphere strokes …

Understanding language reorganization with neuroimaging: how language adapts to different focal lesions and insights into clinical applications

L Pasquini, A Di Napoli, MC Rossi-Espagnet… - Frontiers in human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
When the language-dominant hemisphere is damaged by a focal lesion, the brain may
reorganize the language network through functional and structural changes known as …

Neuroplasticity in aphasia: a proposed framework of language recovery

S Kiran, EL Meier, JP Johnson - Journal of speech, language, and hearing …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose Despite a tremendous amount of research in this topic, the precise neural
mechanisms underlying language recovery remain unclear. Much of the evidence suggests …

Constraint-induced aphasia therapy in post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

J Zhang, J Yu, Y Bao, Q Xie, Y Xu, J Zhang, P Wang - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) has been widely used in post-stroke
aphasia rehabilitation. An increasing number of clinical controlled trials have investigated …

Combining rTMS with intensive language-action therapy in chronic aphasia: a randomized controlled trial

PH Heikkinen, F Pulvermüller, JP Mäkelä… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuromodulation technologies, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are
promising tools for neurorehabilitation, aphasia therapy included, but not yet in common …

Multi-factorial modulation of hemispheric specialization and plasticity for language in healthy and pathological conditions: A review

N Tzourio-Mazoyer, M Perrone-Bertolotti, G Jobard… - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
This review synthesizes anatomo-functional variability of language hemispheric
representation and specialization (hemispheric specialization for language, HSL) as well as …

The role of the right hemisphere white matter tracts in chronic aphasic patients after damage of the language tracts in the left hemisphere

E Kourtidou, D Kasselimis, G Angelopoulou… - Frontiers in human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The involvement of the right hemisphere (RH) in language, and especially after aphasia
resulting from left hemisphere (LH) lesions, has been recently highlighted. The present study …

Recovery of offline and online sentence processing in aphasia: Language and domain-general network neuroplasticity

E Barbieri, J Mack, B Chiappetta, E Europa… - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examined the effects of treatment on both offline and online sentence processing
and associated neuroplasticity within sentence processing and dorsal attention networks in …