Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke
Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke
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.