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 …

Aphasia, impairment of language after stroke or other neurological insult, is a common and
often devastating condition that affects nearly every social activity and interaction …

Background Post-stroke aphasia might improve over many years with speech and language
therapy; however speech and language therapy is often less readily available beyond a few …

Introduction: A decrease in ischemic stroke (IS) incidence has been observed in high
income countries during the last decades. Whether this has influenced the occurrence of …

Background A core outcome set (COS; an agreed, minimum set of outcomes) was needed to
address the heterogeneous measurement of outcomes in aphasia treatment research and to …

Importance Aphasia is a debilitating language disorder for which behavioral speech therapy
is the most efficient treatment, but therapy outcomes are variable and full recovery is not …

Background Effectiveness of early intensive aphasia rehabilitation after stroke is unknown.
The Very Early Rehabilitation for SpEech trial (VERSE) aimed to determine whether …

Introduction: Aphasia is a debilitating language disorder and even mild forms of aphasia can
negatively affect functional outcomes, mood, quality of life, social participation, and the …

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 …

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) are
neurodegenerative syndromes characterized by progressive decline in language or speech …