Spectrum of neuropsychiatric symptoms in chronic post-stroke aphasia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) have been insufficiently examined in persons with aphasia (PWA) because most previous studies exclude participants with language and communication disorders.

Aim

To report a two-part study consisting of a literature review and an observational study on NPS in post-stroke aphasia.

Methods

Study 1 reviewed articles obtained from PubMed, PsycINFO, Google Scholar and Cochrane databases after cross-referencing key words of post-stroke aphasia to NPS and disorders. Study 2 examined language deficits and activities of daily living in 20 PWA (median age: 58, range: 28-65 years; 13 men) with the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised and the Barthel Index, respectively. Informants of these 20 PWA were proxy-evaluated with the Neuropsychiatri

SUBMITTER: Edelkraut L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8968505 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature