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Aphasia is a devastating but common consequence of brain injury.1,2 One of the most prevalent long-term problems for these patients, impaired naming, is typically studied in stroke survivors and individuals… Click to show full abstract
Aphasia is a devastating but common consequence of brain injury.1,2 One of the most prevalent long-term problems for these patients, impaired naming, is typically studied in stroke survivors and individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). However, other etiologies also lead to language deficits, including brain tumor, traumatic brain injury, infection, and a myriad of neurodegenerative disorders beyond PPA.3 Converging evidence from the different etiologies demonstrates that it is often the location of the brain damage, rather than the cause, that leads to specific impairments.4–6
Journal Title: Neurology
Year Published: 2020
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