Poststroke aphasia rehabilitation: Why all talk and no action?

Authors/Creators

Susan Wortman-Jutt
Dylan Edwards, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

There is ample agreement in the scientific literature, across diverse areas of study, that suggests that language and movement are interrelated. In particular, it is widely held that the upper limb and hand play a key role in language use. Aphasia, a common, disabling language disorder frequently associated with stroke, requires new restorative methods. A combinatorial hand-arm-language paradigm that capitalizes on shared neural networks may therefore prove beneficial for aphasia recovery in stroke patients and requires further exploration.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

4-1-2019

ISSN

1552-6844

Volume

33

Issue

4

PubMed ID

30900528

Publication Title

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

RAS ID

28777

Comments

Wortman-Jutt, S., & Edwards, D. (2019). Poststroke aphasia rehabilitation: Why all talk and no action?. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 33(4), 235–244. Available here

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First Page

235

Last Page

244