ALLMedicine™ Aphasia Center

Dec 4th, 2022 - Buccofacial apraxia (BFA) is associated with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) as well as with the severity of apraxia of speech (AOS), a core symptom of nfvPPA. However, an association with agrammatism has not been...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Stroke and neurodegenerative diseases differ along several dimensions, including their temporal trajectories -abrupt onset versus slow disease progression. Despite these differences, they can give rise to very similar cognitive impairments, such a...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - If language production is impaired, will gestures compensate? Evidence in favor of this prediction has often been argued to come from aphasia, but it remains contested. Here, we tested whether thought content not present in speech due to language ...

Dec 1st, 2022 - Immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) is a clinical and neuropsychiatric syndrome that can occur days to weeks following administration chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Manifestations of ICANS range from enc...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) utilize counseling to support the psychological wellbeing of people with post-stroke aphasia, however, SLPs receive variable, usually limited, counseling education. Counseling education may be effective in impro...

Apr 9th, 2022 - Return to Work for People With Aphasia.|2022|Gilmore N,Fraas M,Hinckley J,|

Oct 14th, 2022 - Aphasia is an impairment in the expression or comprehension of language that can limit people's ability to communicate needs, reduce comprehension in complex environments, and prevent a return to work or limit participation in everyday life activi...

Oct 13th, 2022 - Unconsciousness is common after an acute brain injury such as a brain hemorrhage, and recovery is poorly understood. This lack of knowledge is a key impediment to the development of novel strategies to improve outcomes and is one of the main reaso...

Oct 10th, 2022 - TBI is defined as an alteration in brain function, or other evidence of brain pathology, caused by an external force. [A] Alteration in brain function is defined as 1 of the following clinical signs: Any period of loss of or a decreased level of c...

Oct 10th, 2022 - Primary objective : Evaluation of the performance of the TWIST algorithm in predicting to walking independently recovery after stroke. Secondary objectives: Analysis of other factors that may influence walking recovery. Define for which patient pr...

Oct 10th, 2022 - Functional connectivity (FC) represents a means of analyzing functional interactions in the brain network by assessing the statistical dependence of neural activity between brain areas. The brain maintains a high level of interactions between brai...

Nov 21st, 2022 - The increasing integration of CAR T-cell therapies into the treatment paradigm for adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma addresses several unmet needs and improves outcomes for this historically limited patient population, ac...

Sep 29th, 2022 - Adagrasib (MRTX849) led to an intracranial objective response rate (ORR) of 32% and a median intracranial duration of response (DOR) that was not reached in patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and active, untreated ce...

Sep 27th, 2022 - Barry Paul, MD, assistant professor, the Division of Plasma Cell Disorders, the Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders, Atrium Health, discusses the management of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell–associated ...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways High tCr and low glutamate+glutamine (Glx) metabolite levels in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) correlate with gre...

Jul 13th, 2022 - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) issued recommendations for providers treating children with brain cancers, the second-most-common pediatric malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-related death in children.1-3 Approximately 15...