Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke

Neurophysiological Measurement in Aphasia Treatment

Our overall goal is to advance the state of functional brain imaging in aphasia, and then to apply the method to an intensive, imitation-based treatment for non-fluent aphasia.

Detailed information will follow in the next progress report.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Single ischemic infarction in the MCA territory involving the cerebral cortex (confirmed by CT or MRI)
2. Aphasia
3. Visual attention and language comprehension sufficient to perform imitation fMRI tasks
4. Right handed (prior to stroke)

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusions to the study are people with cardiac pacemakers, claustrophobia, neurosurgical clips, or cognitive impairments too severe to permit cooperation with cognitive tasks in an MRI scanner.