Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery Trajectories: A Case Study of Intensive Versus Distributed Therapy

Authors

  • Egle-Ona Liauksminas Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Birzai Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Birzai, Lithuania Author
  • Finnur-Mar Finnsdottir Department of Neurorehabilitation, Skaftafell Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Iceland Author
  • Emiliya-Kr Ivanov-Bor Department of Psycholinguistics, Rila Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Samokov, Bulgaria Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677777

Keywords:

Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery Trajectories; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery Trajectories has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for post-stroke aphasia recovery trajectories, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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2022-12-28