Improving the prediction of language recovery in stroke patients by including risk and protective neurocognitive factors. KU Leuven
Aphasia is a language disorder most commonly caused by a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, in the left hemisphere. Approximately 15-45% of patients in acute stroke settings have aphasia, which impairs their communication and dramatically affects their quality of life. In the first months after stroke, there is often spontaneous and intervention-induced recovery, but for 26-43% a chronic language deficit remains. To date, individual ...