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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2015

Neuroscience of aphasia recovery: the concept of neural multifunctionality.

Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Martin L Albert

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. A Review on Treatment-Related Brain Changes in Aphasia.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020
    Review
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  7. Links Between Short-Term Memory and Word Retrieval in Aphasia.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2018
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  9. Short-Term Memory and Aphasia: From Theory to Treatment.Seminars in speech and language · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dalia Cahana-AmitayVA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, dcamitay@bu.edu.
Martin L Albert

Funding

LANGUAGE IN THE AGING BRAINR01AG014345 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI ALBERT, MARTIN L, OBLER, LORAINE K. · 1997 to 2015
$5.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01AG14345
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aphasia therapy, while demonstrably successful, has been limited by its primary focus on language, with relatively less attention paid to nonlinguistic factors (cognitive, affective, praxic) that play a major role in recovery from aphasia. Neuroscientific studies of the past 15-20 years have opened a breach in the wall of traditional clinico-anatomical teachings on aphasia. It is not an exaggeration to talk of a paradigm shift. The term "neural multifunctionality" denotes a complex web of neural networks supporting both linguistic and nonlinguistic functions in constant and dynamic interaction, creating language as we know it and contributing to recovery from aphasia following brain damage. This paper reviews scientific underpinnings of neural multifunctionality and suggests ways in which this new approach to understanding the neural basis of language can lead to meaningful, practical steps for improvements in aphasia therapy.

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AnimalsAphasiaComprehensionHumansNeurosciences

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