International Journal of Neurorehabilitation

BDH-Clinic Hessisch Oldendorf, Institute for Neurorehabilitation Research, Associated Institute of the Hannover Medical School, Germany

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• Research Article   
  Attentional Impairments of Aphasic Patients in the Acute and Postacute Phase after Stroke
  Author(s): Kathrin Müller, Cornelia Breyer, Simone Bianca Schmidt*, Melanie Boltzmann, Kerstin Richter, Martina Hielscher-Fastabend and Jens Dieter Rollnik
  
  Attention deficits as well as aphasia are being frequently observed among post-stroke patients. However, studies analysing attentional deficits of aphasic patients in the acute phase after stroke are rare. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate attentional deficits in stroke patients with aphasia, the relationship between attentional and linguistic deficits as well as changes in these domains from acute to post-acute phase. Twelve patients with first insult in the left hemisphere, aged between 45 to 88 years were included. Each patient completed a linguistic and a neuropsychological assessment Bielefeld Aphasie Screening (BiAS); attention test of the Aphasie-Check-Liste (ACL); Reduced Symbol-Digit-Test (R-SDT) in the acute as well as in the post-acute phase after stroke. In the acute phase, 91.67% (n=11/12) of the aphasic patients showed attentional deficits. While the per.. Read More»
  

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