Longitudinal Imaging of Reading and Naming Recovery after Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Functional neuroimaging techniques can provide a unique window into the neural basis of language recovery after a stroke. The functional neuroimaging literature on post-stroke language recovery is complex; multiple factors such as the time post-stroke, degree of initial impairment, nature of the task, and lesion location and size, influence recovery patterns. Some of these factors may not be applicable across different stroke participants, and therefore, influence recovery trajectories in vastly different manners across patients.

Aims

The aim of this paper is to examine longitudinal changes in brain activation patterns of reading and naming recovery in participants with posterior cerebral artery (PCA) strokes with varying degrees of initial language impairment.

SUBMITTER: Long C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097621 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature