Dissociable language and executive control deficits and recovery in post-stroke aphasia: An exploratory observational and case series study.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of evidence indicates many, but not all, individuals with post-stroke aphasia experience executive dysfunction. Relationships between language and executive function skills are often reported in the literature, but the degree of interdependence between these abilities remains largely unanswered. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the extent to which language and executive control deficits dissociated in 1) acute stroke and 2) longitudinal aphasia recovery. Twenty-three individuals admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital with a new left hemisphere stroke completed the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R), several additional language measures (of naming, semantics, spontaneous speech, and oral reading), and three non-linguistic cognitive tasks from the NIH Toolbox (i.e.,

SUBMITTER: Meier EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9728463 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature