Aphasia recovery by language training using a brain-computer interface: a proof-of-concept study.

ABSTRACT: Aphasia, the impairment to understand or produce language, is a frequent disorder after stroke with devastating effects. Conventional speech and language therapy include each formal intervention for improving language and communication abilities. In the chronic stage after stroke, it is effective compared with no treatment, but its effect size is small. We present a new language training approach for the rehabilitation of patients with aphasia based on a brain-computer interface system. The approach exploits its capacity to provide feedback time-locked to a brain state. Thus, it implements the idea that reinforcing an appropriate language processing strategy may induce beneficial brain plasticity. In our approach, patients perform a simple auditory target word detection task whilst their E

SUBMITTER: Musso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8846581 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature