Therapeutic interventions for aphasia initiated more than six months post stroke: A review of the evidence

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 523-535

  Allen, Laura ^a,b   Mehta, Swati ^a,b   McClure, J Andrew ^a,b   Teasell, Robert ^a,b,c  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b PARKWOOD HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Chronic; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; MEMANTINE; PIRACETAM;

APHASIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SPEECH THERAPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84870701545     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr1906-523     Document Type: Review

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