ReviewFrontiers in neurology2014
Melodic intonation therapy: back to basics for future research.
Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06213376 (Intensive MIT Paired With Video Feedback for Motor Speech Disorders and Aphasia), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Intensive MIT Paired With Video Feedback for Motor Speech Disorders and Aphasia
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.
- Melodic Intonation Therapy for aphasia: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and individual participant data.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Melodic Intonation Therapy on Non-fluent Aphasia After Stroke: A Systematic Review and Analysis on Clinical Trials.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Melodic Intonation Therapy for Post-stroke Non-fluent Aphasia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Pooled it
- Neurorehabilitation Clinical Pathways in Stroke: The Padova Model.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Reconsidering music in stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review from auditory stimulus to relational process.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The Use of Neurologic Music Therapy in Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery: A Case Report on Linguistic Improvements and fMRI Correlates.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A targeted review of prosodic production in agrammatic aphasia.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2025Review
- The Effect of Prosodic Timing Structure on Unison Production in People With Aphasia.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activation During Unscripted Discourse in People With Poststroke Aphasia.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Melodic intonation therapy for non-fluent aphasia after stroke: A clinical pilot study on behavioral and DTI findings.iScience · 2023Article
- Beyond Broca: neural architecture and evolution of a dual motor speech coordination system.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
- A Review on Music Interventions for Frontotemporal Aphasia and a Proposal for Alternative Treatments.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Melodic Intonation Therapy in Post-Stroke Non-Fluent Aphasia and Its Effects on Brain Plasticity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- The relationship between entrainment dynamics and reading fluency assessed by sensorimotor perturbation.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Singing for the Rehabilitation of Acquired Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Continuing the Evidence Dialogue with a Survey of Current Practices in Speech-Language Pathology.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Evaluating Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Interventions for Aphasia Within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- In Time with the Beat: Entrainment in Patients with Phonological Impairment, Apraxia of Speech, and Parkinson's Disease.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Processing of Degraded Speech in Brain Disorders.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation.NeuroRehabilitation · 2021Review
- Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy to Greek: A Clinical Study in Broca's Aphasia With Brain Perfusion SPECT Validation.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We present a critical review of the literature on melodic intonation therapy (MIT), one of the most formalized treatments used by speech-language therapist in Broca's aphasia. We suggest basic clarifications to enhance the scientific support of this promising treatment. First, therapeutic protocols using singing as a speech facilitation technique are not necessarily MIT. The goal of MIT is to restore propositional speech. The rationale is that patients can learn a new way to speak through singing by using language-capable regions of the right cerebral hemisphere. Eventually, patients are supposed to use this way of speaking permanently but not to sing overtly. We argue that many treatment programs covered in systematic reviews on MIT's efficacy do not match MIT's therapeutic goal and rationale. Critically, we identified two main variations of MIT: the French thérapie mélodique et rythmée (TMR) that trains patients to use singing overtly as a facilitation technique in case of speech struggle and palliative versions of MIT that help patients with the most severe expressive deficits produce a limited set of useful, readymade phrases. Second, we distinguish between the immediate effect of singing on speech production and the long-term effect of the entire program on language recovery. Many results in the MIT literature can be explained by this temporal perspective. Finally, we propose that MIT can be viewed as a treatment of apraxia of speech more than aphasia. This issue should be explored in future experimental studies.
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