What's New in ... Aphasia?
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What's New in ... Aphasia?


Here are references to some recent papers covering important topics in aphasia:

Otsuki M, Soma Y, Yoshimura N, Miyashita K, Nagatsuka K, Naritomi H. How to improve repetition ability in patients with Wernicke's aphasia: The effect of a disguised task. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 2005 May; 76(5): 733-735.

Grossman M, Moore P. A longitudinal study of sentence comprehension difficulty in primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 2005 May; 76(5): 644-649.

Crosson B, Moore AB, Gopinath K, White KD, Wierenga CE, Gaiefsky ME, Fabrizio KS, Peck KK, Soltysik D, Milsted C, Briggs RW, Conway TW, Gonzalez Rothi LJ. Role of the right and left hemispheres in recovery of function during treatment of intention in aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005 Mar; 17(3): 392-406.

Bakheit A. Drug treatment of poststroke aphasia. Expert Rev Neurother. 2004 Mar; 4(2): 211-217.

Grossman M, Ash S. Primary progressive aphasia: A review. Neurocase. 2004 Feb; 10(1): 3-18.





- June Is Aphasia Awareness Month
June is Aphasia Awareness Month. For the past twenty years or so, this month in North America has been dedicated to promoting a greater knowledge base among the general public as well as the non-CNS professional community about what aphasia is and about...

- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: The Wernicke Conundrum And Primary Progressive Aphasia
M-Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson, Sandra Weintraub, and Emily J. Rogalski (2015). The Wernicke conundrum and the anatomy of language comprehension in primary progressive aphasia. Brain. [Published online June 25 2015 doi:10.1093/brain/awv154] Wernicke’s...

- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia
Baldo JV, Klostermann EC, & Dronkers NF. It's either a cook or a baker: Patients with conduction aphasia get the gist but lose the trace. Brain and Language. 2008 Feb 1 [Epub ahead of print] VA Northern California Health Care System, Center for Aphasia...

- Musing About The Sound Of Amygdala
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Amygdala: Word as Earworm By JAMES GORMAN The New York Times Published: January 11, 2005 My infatuation with the amygdala has led me to wonder where aphasia and amusia overlap, a subject that neurologists have been investigating...

- Abstract Of The Day: Neuropsychological Assessment
Sarno MT, Postman WA, Cho YS, Norman RG. Evolution of phonemic word fluency performance in post-stroke aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders. 2005 Mar-Apr; 38(2): 83-107. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, New York University,...



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