Improved Neural Processing Efficiency in a Chronic Aphasia Patient following Melodic Intonation Therapy: A Neuropsychological and Functional MRI Study

Improved Neural Processing Efficiency in a Chronic Aphasia Patient following Melodic Intonation Therapy: A Neuropsychological and Functional MRI Study

Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is a treatment program for the rehabilitation of aphasic patients with speech production disorders. We report a case of severe chronic non-fluent aphasia unresponsive to several years of conventional therapy that showed a marked improvement following intensive nine-d...

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Main Authors: Ken-Ichi Tabei, Masayuki Satoh, Chizuru Nakano, Ai Ito, Yasuo Shimoji, Hirotaka Kida, Hajime Sakuma, Hidekazu Tomimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
Aphasia
Prosody
Western Aphasia Battery (WAB)
neural efficiency theory
functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Japanese version of MIT (MIT-J)
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2016.00148/full

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