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 …

What is the nature of poststroke language recovery and reorganization?

S Kiran - international scholarly research notices, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on three main topics related to the nature of poststroke language
recovery and reorganization. The first topic pertains to the nature of anatomical and …

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 …

Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia

S Kiran, EL Meier, KJ Kapse, PA Glynn - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we examined regions in the left and right hemisphere language network that
were altered in terms of the underlying neural activation and effective connectivity …

Right hemisphere remapping of naming functions depends on lesion size and location in poststroke aphasia

LM Skipper-Kallal, EH Lacey, S Xing… - Neural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of language network plasticity following left hemisphere stroke is foundational to
the understanding of aphasia recovery and neural plasticity in general. Damage in different …

Distinct mechanisms and timing of language recovery after stroke

S Jarso, M Li, A Faria, C Davis, R Leigh… - Cognitive …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The “language network” is remarkably stable across language tasks but changes in
response to injury to specific components or in response to “disconnection” of input to one …

The relationships between the amount of spared tissue, percent signal change, and accuracy in semantic processing in aphasia

JA Sims, K Kapse, P Glynn, C Sandberg, Y Tripodis… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
Recovery from aphasia, loss of language following a cerebrovascular incident (stroke), is a
complex process involving both left and right hemispheric regions. In our study, we analyzed …

Treatment-induced neural reorganization in aphasia is language-domain specific: evidence from a large-scale fMRI study

E Barbieri, CK Thompson, J Higgins, D Caplan, S Kiran… - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies investigating the effects of language intervention on the re-organization of language
networks in chronic aphasia have resulted in mixed findings, likely related to—among other …

Treatment-related changes in neural activation vary according to treatment response and extent of spared tissue in patients with chronic aphasia

JP Johnson, EL Meier, Y Pan, S Kiran - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging studies of aphasia recovery have linked treatment-related improvements in
language processing to changes in functional brain activation in left hemisphere language …

Imaging network level language recovery after left PCA stroke

R Sebastian, C Long, JJ Purcell… - Restorative …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Purpose: The neural mechanisms that support aphasia recovery are not yet fully understood.
Our goal was to evaluate longitudinal changes in naming recovery in participants with …