How to support people with aphasia with medicines optimisationdoi:10.1211/PJ.2018.20204234Nina BarnettParesh ParmarThe Pharmaceutical Journal
People with aphasia are likely to have difficulty with cognitive processes such as attention, short-term memory, working memory, declarative memory, and executive functioning. What You Might Notice People with cognitive-communication disorders often have trouble participating in conversations. They may ...
Part of the message comes in gesture: how people with aphasia convey information in different gesture types as compared with information in their speechPart of the message comes in gesture: how people with aphasia convey information in different gesture types as compared with information in their sp...
Further research to understand speech pathologists' clinical reasoning and professional support needs, and the perspectives of people living with aphasia, may help to develop an evidence‐based approach to prognostication in aphasia. What this paper adds What is already known on this subject Questions ...
development, while others work at medical facilities, helping those with swallowing disorders or aphasia. Some may own private practices, where they offer a range of services. Whatever work environment or specialty they choose, speech-language pathologists help individuals to improve their communication ...
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○ For example, people with ALS might experience progressive loss of motor neurons, which could affect their ability to control BCIs based on motor imagery. [8, 9] Additionally, other impairments such as aphasia (difficulty with language) or visual field deficits could interfere with BCI use. ...
sounds and language, as damage to it can lead to something called Wernicke’s aphasia, where a person can lose the ability to understand language. They can often still speak clearly, but what they say is often confusing and empty of content. This is typically referred to as “word salad”...
Georgetown University researchers, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping target rehabilitation efforts.
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