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ArticleBrain sciences2023

Investigating Aphasia Recovery: Demographic and Clinical Factors.

Georgios Papageorgiou, Dimitrios Kasselimis, Georgia Angelopoulou, Nikolaos Laskaris, Dimitrios Tsolakopoulos, Georgios Velonakis, Argyro Tountopoulou, Sophia Vassilopoulou, Constantin Potagas

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Article in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Georgios PapageorgiouNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios KasselimisNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6324-0384
Georgia AngelopoulouNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos LaskarisNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6838-6542
Dimitrios TsolakopoulosNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Georgios Velonakis2nd Department of Radiology, General University Hospital "Attikon", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0050-284X
Argyro TountopoulouStroke Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3276-588X
Sophia VassilopoulouStroke Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.
Constantin PotagasNeuropsychology & Language Disorders Unit, 1st Neurology Department, Eginition Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRPanteion University · GR

Funding

Current research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and. Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the "First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment gran (Project Number 4081).
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Abstract

Post-stroke language recovery remains one of the main unresolved topics in the field of aphasia. In recent years, there have been efforts to identify specific factors that could potentially lead to improved language recovery. However, the exact relationship between the recovery of particular language functions and possible predictors, such as demographic or lesion variables, is yet to be fully understood. In the present study, we attempted to investigate such relationships in 42 patients with aphasia after left hemisphere stroke, focusing on three language domains: auditory comprehension, naming and speech fluency. Structural imaging data were also obtained for the identification of the lesion sites. According to our findings, patients demonstrated an overall improvement in all three language domains, while no demographic factor significantly contributed to aphasia recovery. Interestingly, specific lesion loci seemed to have a differential effect on language performance, depending on the time of testing (i.e., acute/subacute vs. chronic phase). We argue that this variability concerning lesion-deficit associations reflects the dynamic nature of aphasia and further discuss possible explanations in the framework of neuroplastic changes during aphasia recovery.

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acuteaphasiaauditory comprehensionchroniclanguage recoverylesionnamingspeech fluencystroke

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