Abstract
We assessed oral naming skill after left hemisphere ischemic stroke in 54 right-handed aphasics. Initially, almost all had moderate to severe disability in oral naming. After 6 months, normal scores were achieved by one- third of the patients, all with lesions less than 60 cm3 in volume. Only 2 of 18 patients who were nonfluent at 6 months had normal naming then. Among patients with lesions less than 60 cm3 and persistently poor naming, there were two discrete lesion sites: posterior superior temporal-inferior parietal (semantic paraphasic errors) and insula-putamen (phonologic paraphasic errors). Individual variability was notable, with several patients regaining normal naming ability despite posterior temporal or insula-putamen lesions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1461-1470 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Neurology |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1984 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology