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Pezoa-Peña I, Julio-Ramos T, Cigarroa I, Martella D, Solomons D, Toloza-Ramirez D. Neuropsychological and Anatomical-Functional Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Post-Stroke Patients with Cognitive Impairment and Aphasia: A Systematic Review. Neuropsychol Rev 2024:10.1007/s11065-024-09644-4. [PMID: 38867020 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-024-09644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been found to be promising in the neurorehabilitation of post-stroke patients. Aphasia and cognitive impairment (CI) are prevalent post-stroke; however, there is still a lack of consensus about the characteristics of interventions based on TMS and its neuropsychological and anatomical-functional benefits. Therefore, studies that contribute to creating TMS protocols for these neurological conditions are necessary. To analyze the evidence of the neuropsychological and anatomical-functional TMS effects in post-stroke patients with CI and aphasia and determine the characteristics of the most used TMS in research practice. The present study followed the PRISMA guidelines and included articles from PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and EMBASE databases, published between January 2010 and March 2023. In the 15 articles reviewed, it was found that attention, memory, executive function, language comprehension, naming, and verbal fluency (semantic and phonological) are the neuropsychological domains that improved post-TMS. Moreover, TMS in aphasia and post-stroke CI contribute to greater frontal activation (in the inferior frontal gyrus, pars triangularis, and opercularis). Temporoparietal effects were also found. The observed effects occur when TMS is implemented in repetitive modality, at a frequency of 1 Hz, in sessions of 30 min, and that last more than 2 weeks in duration. The use of TMS contributes to the neurorehabilitation process in post-stroke patients with CI and aphasia. However, it is still necessary to standardize future intervention protocols based on accurate TMS characteristics.
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- Ignacio Pezoa-Peña
- Master's program in Neuroscience, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Temuco, Chile
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- Laboratory of Language Rehabilitation and Stimulation (LARES), Speech and Language Therapy School, Health Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- PhD Program in Health Sciences and Engineering, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
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- Escuela de kinesiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Arturo Prat, Victoria, Chile
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- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Loyola, Campus Sevilla, Sevilla, España
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- Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Millenium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHEALTH), Santiago, Chile
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- Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, School of Speech Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Fernández Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, 7591538, Chile.
- Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Li TT, Zhang PP, Zhang MC, Zhang H, Wang HY, Yuan Y, Wu SL, Wang XW, Sun ZG. Meta-analysis and systematic review of the relationship between sex and the risk or incidence of poststroke aphasia and its types. BMC Geriatr 2024; 24:220. [PMID: 38438862 PMCID: PMC10910787 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-04765-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE To analyse and discuss the association of gender differences with the risk and incidence of poststroke aphasia (PSA) and its types, and to provide evidence-based guidance for the prevention and treatment of poststroke aphasia in clinical practice. DATA SOURCES Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library and Web of Science were searched from January 1, 2002, to December 1, 2023. STUDY SELECTION Including the total number of strokes, aphasia, the number of different sexes or the number of PSA corresponding to different sex. DATA EXTRACTION Studies with missing data, aphasia caused by nonstroke and noncompliance with the requirements of literature types were excluded. DATA SYNTHESIS 36 papers were included, from 19 countries. The analysis of 168,259 patients with stroke and 31,058 patients with PSA showed that the risk of PSA was 1.23 times higher in female than in male (OR = 1.23, 95% CI = 1.19-1.29, P < 0.001), with a prevalence of PSA of 31% in men and 36% in women, and an overall prevalence of 34% (P < 0.001). Analysis of the risk of the different types of aphasia in 1,048 patients with PSA showed a high risk in females for global, broca and Wenicke aphasia, and a high risk in males for anomic, conductive and transcortical aphasia, which was not statistically significant by meta-analysis. The incidence of global aphasia (males vs. females, 29% vs. 32%) and broca aphasia (17% vs 19%) were higher in females, and anomic aphasia (19% vs 14%) was higher in males, which was statistically significant (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS There are gender differences in the incidence and types of PSA. The risk of PSA in female is higher than that in male.
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- Ting-Ting Li
- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China.
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- School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China.
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Sharif MS, Goldberg EB, Walker A, Hillis AE, Meier EL. The contribution of white matter pathology, hypoperfusion, lesion load, and stroke recurrence to language deficits following acute subcortical left hemisphere stroke. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0275664. [PMID: 36288353 PMCID: PMC9604977 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Aphasia, the loss of language ability following damage to the brain, is among the most disabling and common consequences of stroke. Subcortical stroke, occurring in the basal ganglia, thalamus, and/or deep white matter can result in aphasia, often characterized by word fluency, motor speech output, or sentence generation impairments. The link between greater lesion volume and acute aphasia is well documented, but the independent contributions of lesion location, cortical hypoperfusion, prior stroke, and white matter degeneration (leukoaraiosis) remain unclear, particularly in subcortical aphasia. Thus, we aimed to disentangle the contributions of each factor on language impairments in left hemisphere acute subcortical stroke survivors. Eighty patients with acute ischemic left hemisphere subcortical stroke (less than 10 days post-onset) participated. We manually traced acute lesions on diffusion-weighted scans and prior lesions on T2-weighted scans. Leukoaraiosis was rated on T2-weighted scans using the Fazekas et al. (1987) scale. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) scans were evaluated for hyperintense vessels in each vascular territory, providing an indirect measure of hypoperfusion in lieu of perfusion-weighted imaging. We found that language performance was negatively correlated with acute/total lesion volumes and greater damage to substructures of the deep white matter and basal ganglia. We conducted a LASSO regression that included all variables for which we found significant univariate relationships to language performance, plus nuisance regressors. Only total lesion volume was a significant predictor of global language impairment severity. Further examination of three participants with severe language impairments suggests that their deficits result from impairment in domain-general, rather than linguistic, processes. Given the variability in language deficits and imaging markers associated with such deficits, it seems likely that subcortical aphasia is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome with distinct causes across individuals.
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- Massoud S. Sharif
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Berube SK, Goldberg E, Sheppard SM, Durfee AZ, Ubellacker D, Walker A, Stein CM, Hillis AE. An Analysis of Right Hemisphere Stroke Discourse in the Modern Cookie Theft Picture. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2022; 31:2301-2312. [PMID: 36075208 PMCID: PMC9907448 DOI: 10.1044/2022_ajslp-21-00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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PURPOSE Adults with right hemisphere damage demonstrate differences in connected speech compared to controls, but systematic, quantitative methods to capture these differences are lacking. The current study aimed to (a) investigate if measures using the Modern Cookie Theft picture description would identify discourse differences in acute right hemisphere stroke, and (b) examine if discourse differences were associated with documented cognitive impairment. METHOD Eighty-four participants completed the Modern Cookie Theft picture description within 5 days of right hemisphere stroke. Descriptions were analyzed for multiple microlinguistic characteristics. Medical charts were retrospectively reviewed for documented presence of cognitive impairment. RESULTS Individuals with acute right hemisphere stroke produced fewer content units, total syllables, and lower left-right content unit ratios compared to controls, indicating a paucity of informativeness. Presence of cognitive impairment was associated with fewer content units produced. CONCLUSIONS Multiple measures of microlinguistic discourse characteristics differentiated adults with right hemisphere stroke from controls, highlighting variations in both the quantity and quality of connected speech. Findings continue to underscore the contribution and correlation between cognitive skills and discourse performance. Future work is needed to assess the relationship between particular cognitive domains and discourse production as well as to investigate longitudinal changes to discourse production during stroke recovery. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.20778541.
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- Shauna K. Berube
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Luft AR. Resilience to a Second Stroke: A Novel Concept in Recovery Research. Stroke 2022; 53:2048-2049. [DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.122.038488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Andreas R. Luft
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Cereneo Center for Neurology and Rehabilitation, Vitznau, Switzerland
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Meier EL, Kelly CR, Goldberg EB, Hillis AE. Executive control deficits and lesion correlates in acute left hemisphere stroke survivors with and without aphasia. Brain Imaging Behav 2022; 16:868-877. [PMID: 34647269 PMCID: PMC8514281 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00580-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In contrast to the traditional definition of the disorder, many individuals with aphasia exhibit non-linguistic cognitive impairments, including executive control deficits. Classic lesion studies cite frontal lobe damage in executive dysfunction, but more recent lesion symptom-mapping studies in chronic aphasia present mixed results. In this study, we compared executive control abilities of acute stroke survivors with and without aphasia and investigated lesion correlates of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive tasks. Twenty-nine participants with acute left hemisphere stroke resulting in aphasia (n = 14) or no aphasia (n = 15) completed clinical MRI and testing, including three NIH Toolbox Cognition Batteries (Pattern Comparison Processing Speed, Flanker Inhibitory Control and Attention, and Dimensional Change Card Sort Tests) and the Boston Naming Test. We compared performance between groups using Wilcoxon rank sum tests. We used Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator Regression to identify neural markers (percent regional damage, hypoperfusion within vascular territories, and total lesion volume) of executive control deficits and anomia. Group performance was comparable on the Pattern Comparison Processing Speed Test, but people with aphasia had poorer standard scores, lower accuracy, and slower response times on the Dimensional Change Card Sort Test than people without aphasia. Damage to extrasylvian regions (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, intraparietal sulcus) was related to executive control deficits, whereas language network damage (to inferior frontal and superior and posterior middle temporal gyri) was linked to naming impairments. These results suggest people with aphasia can exhibit comorbid executive control impairments linked to damage outside classic language network areas.
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- Erin L Meier
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, 228C FR, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Meier EL, Sheppard SM, Goldberg EB, Kelly CR, Walker A, Ubellacker DM, Vitti E, Ruch K, Hillis AE. Dysfunctional Tissue Correlates of Unrelated Naming Errors in Acute Left Hemisphere Stroke. LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE 2021; 37:330-347. [PMID: 35665076 PMCID: PMC9159539 DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1980593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Most naming error lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) studies have focused on semantic and/or phonological errors. Anomic individuals also produce unrelated word errors, which may be linked to semantic or modality-independent lexical deficits. To investigate the neural underpinnings of rarely-studied unrelated errors, we conducted LSM analyses in 100 individuals hospitalized with a left hemisphere stroke who completed imaging protocols and language assessments. We used least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression to capture relationships between naming errors and dysfunctional brain tissue metrics (regional damage or hypoperfusion in vascular territories) in two groups: participants with and without impaired single-word auditory comprehension. Hypoperfusion-particularly within the parietal lobe-was an important error predictor, especially for the unimpaired group. In both groups, higher unrelated error proportions were associated with primarily ventral stream damage, the language route critical for processing meaning. Nonetheless, brain metrics implicated in unrelated errors were distinct from semantic error correlates.
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- Erin L. Meier
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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