Prognostic factors in aphasia
Abstract
This paper reviews the literature on prognostic factors related to recovery from aphasia. These can be regrouped under two headings: anagraphical and neurological factors. Age, sex and handedness are the anagraphical factors considered. Aetiology, site and extent of lesion, and severity and type of aphasia are the neurological ones. The effects of aphasia therapy are considered separately in more detail. Finally, the literature on patterns of recovery in groups of patients and in individual patients is reviewed. It is concluded that personal factors (age, sex, handedness) play a minor role in recovery from aphasia. Initial severity of aphasia and rehabilitation are the most important factors.
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Basso's early review found no role for age, sex or handedness and concluded that the factors that really influence outcome are initial severity of aphasia and rehabilitation.
“As Anna Basso remarked in an early review which focused on demographic variables and found no role for age, sex or handedness: ‘The factors that really do influence outcome are initial severity of aphasia (which is inextricably associated with the extent and the location of the lesion) and rehabilitation’ [35].”
From Aphasia Recovery: When, How and Who to Treat? (2018) · cites this paper as [35]
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- Authors
- Basso, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Milan (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Basso, Anna
- Venue
- Aphasiology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1992-07
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 337-348
- ISSN
- 0268-7038 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-5041
- OpenAlex
- W2017633190
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 66
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- FWCI
- 1.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Aphasiology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Keywords
- aphasia, prognosis, prognostic factors, aphasia severity, aphasia subtypes, aphasia rehabilitation, age, sex, handedness
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