Abstract Language impairment, or aphasia, is a disabling symptom that affects at least one
third of individuals after stroke. Some affected individuals will spontaneously recover partial …

Despite advances in the acute management of stroke, a large proportion of stroke patients
are left with significant impairments. Over the coming decades the prevalence of stroke …

Background Aphasia affects 1/3 of stroke patients with improvements noted only in some of
them. The goal of this exploratory study was to provide preliminary evidence regarding …

Stroke victims tend to prioritize speaking, writing, and walking as the three most important
rehabilitation goals. Of note is that two of these goals involve communication. This …

Stroke is one of the most common causes of disability, and there are few treatments that can
improve recovery after stroke. Therapeutic development has been hindered because of a …

Purpose: Several adult studies have documented the importance of the peri-stroke areas to
aphasia recovery. But, studies examining the differences in patterns of cortical participation …

Saur D, Hartwigsen G. Neurobiology of language recovery after stroke: lessons from
neuroimaging studies. Language is organized in large-scale, predominantly left-lateralized …

Purpose Despite a tremendous amount of research in this topic, the precise neural
mechanisms underlying language recovery remain unclear. Much of the evidence suggests …

Background and Purpose—Early poststroke aphasia rehabilitation effects and their
functional MRI (fMRI) correlates were investigated in a pilot, controlled longitudinal study …

Understanding the processes underlying normal, impaired, and recovered language
performance has been a long-standing goal for cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Many …