Dr. Jerzy Szaflarski, an associate professor of neurology and member of the
UC Neuroscience Institute, has been awarded $2.5 million from the
National Institutes of Health to study language recovery after stroke and to test a new method of rehabilitation from loss of language function.
According to UC HealthNews, Szaflarski and his team will use functional MRI to examine changes the brain undergoes while recovering from a stroke, resulting in the loss of language functions, or "aphasia".
They also plan to test the effectiveness of a new method of aphasia rehabilitation called constraint-induced aphasia therapy, which forces patients to slowly constrain their communication methods until they communicate non-word sounds or writing only verbally.
Earlier this year, a pilot study by the team showed that patients who underwent the therapy following left middle cerebral artery stroke showed substantial improvement in comprehension and verbal skills.
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