Around a third of people are able to almost fully rebuild their brains after a stroke and uncovering why is pointing the way ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Aphasia Communication Enhancement (ACE) Program! The Western Michigan University (WMU) Charles Van Riper Language, Speech and Hearing Clinic (CVRLSHC) has provided speech and language ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration often presents with distinct language impairments that are associated with different distributions of cortical atrophy. Two studies have now demonstrated that these ...

Electrical conduction is the movement of electrically charged particles through a transmission medium. The movement can form an electric current in response to an electric field. The underlying ...

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Rinne and Weber tests use tuning forks to help doctors determine whether hearing loss is conductive (caused by issues in the ear canal, eardrum, or middle ear) or sensorineural (caused by damage to ...

Speech and language perception are inherently multisensory processes. The integration of auditory, visual, and somatosensory signals plays a fundamental ...

When we write things down it's important to keep things nice and clear, so it's easy to read. Sentences help us give an order, ask a question, state a fact or express an emotion or idea. Words are the ...

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Background While meta-analyses confirm treatment for chronic post-stroke aphasia is effective, a lack of comparative evidence for different interventions limits prescription accuracy. We investigated ...