Rapid recovery from aphasia: a detailed language analysis.
The paper presents a daily analysis of the language recovery of a patient who was globally aphasic at the time of her first observation and who had recovered language, as measured by the Western Aphasia Battery, at the time of her discharge 14 days later. The paper emphasizes the relatively regular growth of normal syntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features coupled with similar regular decreases in aphasic features. Observations of both phenomena are necessary to describe language recovery.
D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002539:Cerebral Arterial Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D012660:Semantics; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications; D013997:Time Factors