Intensive therapy induces contralateral white matter changes in chronic stroke patients with Broca's aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Wan, Catherine Y ^a   Zheng, Xin ^a   Marchina, Sarah ^a   Norton, Andrea ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contralateral hemisphere; Diffusion tensor imaging; Melodic intonation therapy; Plasticity; Stroke; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTONATION BASED SPEECH THERAPY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; RIGHT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; RIGHT POSTERIOR CINGULUM; RIGHT POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SPEECH; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; APHASIA, BROCA; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; APHASIA, BROCA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84906776834     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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