Group items tagged stroke - HGSET545

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shared by Parisa Rouhani on 22 Feb 10 - Cached

music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
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patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
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there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
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shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 07 May 12 - No Cached

shared by Jerusha Saldaña Yanez on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached

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