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Article: Studies from M. Meinzer et al provide new data on aphasia.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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"Little is known about how treatment affects the neural substrate of language function in stroke sufferers. In the present study authors investigated neuronal correlates of treatment induced recovery of language functions in patients with chronic aphasia," investigators in the United States report (see also Aphasia).
"In 10 chronic aphasia patients and 10 age- and gender-matched control participants, evoked high-frequency activity (UFA, >20 Hz) was determined from the magnetoencephalogram in an automatic word recognition task, in which content, function, and pseudo-words were visually presented at fast rate (350-ms). Recording was repeated after 2 weeks, in ...