Authors: Ronald M Lazar Daniel Antoniello
Publish Date: 2008/11/22
Volume: 8, Issue: 6, Pages: 497-502
Abstract
Clinicians have long recognized the enormous variability of recovery among patients with aphasia Accordingly the identification of specific factors most important in determining the extent of recovery has been the subject of many investigations Yet the reasons for two patients of the same age nearly identical clinical presentations and similar MRI findings having completely dissimilar recoveries are still unknown It remains difficult for a clinician to make a valid prognosis of language recovery in an individual patient This article provides a review of aphasiarecovery research and a framework for approaching the variability of recovery in clinical practice
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