But that doesn't mean patients can't continue to slowly improve their language skills. "Recovery from aphasia can continue for many, many years," says Martin L. Albert, MD, PhD, a professor of ...

You might have trouble understanding what people are telling you, but that does not mean it affects your intelligence.” ...

In such conditions, an individual with receptive aphasia would interpret what is said as unintelligible sound. Their speech would also lose coherence. Expressive aphasia occurs when the brain's Broca ...

Extracting geometric features from 3D scans or point clouds is the first step in applications such as registration, reconstruction, and tracking. State-of-the-art methods require computing low-level ...

Clinically, there is a paucity of sensitive and efficient tools for acute bedside administration to determine aphasia severity. We hypothesized that performance on a picture description task ...

Aphasia doesn’t kill, but it can erase identity, self-worth, and connection. ... With receptive aphasia, there is difficulty understanding spoken language or written words.

PPA is caused by diseases that affect brain cells in the front and sides of the brain, called the frontal and temporal lobes. Therefore, it is often referred to as a type of frontotemporal ...

A 45 year-old man was brought to the hospital confused and with a receptive aphasia following a motor vehicle accident. Temporal Pole Contusion. Axial CT scans without contrast. Note the area of ...

When Tina Harris of Brighton Heights awoke in the hospital hours after having a stroke, her voice was gone. She heard doctors discussing the unlikely chance ...

"Not everyone will be receptive to your camera. Remember that for every 'no', there will be a 'yes' waiting to be found. Embrace the setbacks and keep trying." Image analysis. Sharveh is a mournful ...

A SERIES of art posters created by Skipton artist and stroke survivor, Mark Chappell, has gone on display. The artwork was created by Mark from words about living with Aphasia supplied by members, ...