How dogs are helping aphasia patients improve their ability to speak: "This is the best thing ever"

At Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation Center, dogs are being used to help aphasia patients.

Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction: Aphasia

Explore the latest medical news and research findings related to Aphasia. This page aggregates current publications and studies from trusted medical sources.
Nature

Primary progressive aphasia: clinicopathological correlations

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a disorder of declining language that is a frequent presentation of neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Three variants of PPA are ...
IEEE

InstructTTS: Modelling Expressive TTS in Discrete Latent Space With Natural Language Style Prompt

Abstract: Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with varying speaking styles to better reflect human speech patterns. In this study, we attempt to use natural language as a style ...
BMJ

How common is isolated dysphasia among patients with stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis, and what is their outcome? Results from the SITS-ISTR

Participants Patients with stroke (N=58 293) treated with IVT between December 2002 and December 2012. Setting A multinational, prospective, observational monitoring register. Main outcome measures ...
verywellhealth

What Causes Echolalia, and How Serious Is It?

Echolalia is the repeating of words or phrases you've heard, either immediately or at a later time. Echolalia is a normal part of early language development, which usually stops by age 3. Echolalia ...