MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'aphasia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:07 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747749&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F04%2Faphasia-caregiver-account.html Available for streaming and as a podcast, from WNYC: "Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love" Listen22 April 2011 WNYC Leonard Lopate Show "Diane Ackerman talks about her husband, Paul West’s, stroke and long recovery. He was afflicted with aphasia—loss of language—and Diane, frustrated with traditional therapies, relied on her scientific understanding of language and the brain to guide Paul back to the world of words. Her book One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing is an account of stroke, aphasia, and recovery, as well a love story." (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747749 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:03:00 +0100 4747749 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3433033&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day.html CONCLUSION: There are spontaneous recovery of post-stroke aphasia within 3 months. Donepezil may facilitate the recovery in spontaneous speech, comprehension, repetition, and naming functions.PMID: 20356506 [PubMed - in process] (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3433033 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:58:00 +0100 3433033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2804080&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-aphasia.html Conclusions & Implications: The data support the reliability and validity of the Scenario Test as an instrument for examining daily-life communication in aphasia. The test focuses on multimodal communication; its psychometric qualities enable future studies on the effect of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) training in aphasia.PMID: 19724959 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2804080 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:59:00 +0100 2804080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447728&cid=t_127353_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FKfRo5Y9GzSU%2F Aphasia - what is that? Aphasia is the inability to communicate with speech. Someone can be completely aphasic, unable to speak at all, or they can be aphasic in such a way that they’re speaking, but they’re not making much sense to the listener. People with aphasia haven’t lost their mental capacity. Unless they’ve had some sort of head trauma that caused more damage to their brain, their intelligence is left intact. That’s what can make aphasia all that more cruel. They can think, but they can’t let you know what they’re thinking. Remember that as frustrating as it is for you to try to figure out what an aphasic person is saying, it probably doesn’t come close to the frustration of the person with aphasia. The National Aphasia Organization ... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447728 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:34:30 +0100 2447728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1399189&cid=t_127353_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F277784065%2F It’s been noted that some autistic children can sing before they can talk. My son Charlie was taught to say sounds and then words starting from when he was three and, while he’s always hummed and responded to music, it was a few more years before he started to sing short melodies and bits of tunes. Today, he tends to speak in phrases of a two to five words, often without verbs and other connecting words. He does add these in if we prompt him. In the past year, we’ve noted that Charlie can sing longer phrases and sentences than he speaks with. He can sings back a song minutes after hearing it on the radio, and sometimes keeps singing it for the rest of the day. (And Charlie has learned to read music with more ease than words.) An article in the April 22nd New York Times ab... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1399189 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:36:05 +0100 1399189 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1207287&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-aphasia.html 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 and Related Disorders, 150 Muir Road (126s), Martinez, CA 94553, USA.Patients with conduction aphasia have been characterized as having a short-term memory deficit that leads to relative difficulty on span and repetition tasks. It has also been observed that these same patients often get the gist of what is said to them, even if they are unable to repeat the information verbatim. To study this phenomenon experimentally, patients with conduction aphasia and left hemisphere-injured controls were tested on a repetition recognition task that requ... BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1207287 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:40:00 +0100 1207287 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=948419&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-aphasia.html CONCLUSIONS: People with aphasia can be and have been included in depression diagnostic assessments. However, we suggest that depression and language experts collaborate to develop a more valid method of depression diagnosis for patients with aphasia that has good reliability.PMID: 17932334 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=948419 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:51:00 +0100 948419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=885331&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-aphasia.html Conclusions. Aphasic communication can be supported effectively by TS. Patients with a severe aphasia are able to master a hierarchical computerised vocabulary and to use it in daily life for specific communicative situations. In addition, TS may also have a generalised effect on overall communicative ability. For most patients, the supportive role of TS is temporary.PMID: 17852317 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=885331 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:41:00 +0100 885331 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=695209&cid=t_127353_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fconfronted-by-primary-progressive.html From The New York Times:LivesDiminishing Returns By KATHERINE NICHOLSPublished: June 24, 2007During the two years leading up to his diagnosis, my husband, a highly respected physician, struggled to communicate and complete work, left me in doubt about his truthfulness, accumulated debt I was unaware of and wrote a series of notes that I found bizarre and degrading. Yet he often seemed so loving and well. I wondered if the insanity began with me.[ ... Read the entire column ... ] (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=695209 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:52:00 +0100 695209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=474457&cid=t_127353_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1592 New Excalibur #17 “Fallen Friend, part 2” Chris Claremont, writer Scot Eaton, penciler As the issue starts, Talia (Nocture) can barely move her right limbs. In addition, she is having trouble remembering her teammate’s names, as well as difficulty speaking and understanding what others are saying. (I think the listening and speaking difficulties are supposed to be aphasia — damage to language center in the brain– but it wasn’t made entirely clear by the script. She could also be having some dysarthria — trouble controlling the speaking muscles.) Within the first couple of days after the stroke, Talia’s memory and communication problems have cleared up, but she is still struggling with right hemiparesis (weakness of the muscles of her right s... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=474457 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:00:03 +0100 474457