Case Report
Orthographic Visualisation Induced Brain Activations in a Chronic Poststroke Global Aphasia with Dissociation between Oral and Written Expression
Table 1
Language and neuropsychological performance.
| | Time after stroke | 36 months | 9 months | 3 months |
| | Period of therapy | 18 months | pretherapy | pretherapy |
| | Oral production | | | | | Series | 15/17 | 0/10 | 0/10 | | Description of a picture | nonfluent
agrammatism | mute
apraxia | mute
apraxia | | Pictures Naming | 20/31 | 0/31 | 0/31 | | Verbal fluency (1’) | | | | | Letter « s » | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Category « animals » | 13 | 0 | 0 | | Oral Repetition | | | | | Words | 12/25 | 0/25 | 0/25 | | Nonwords | 4/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | | Sentences | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | | Oral comprehension | | | | | Words | 9/9 | 8/9 | 9/9 | | Sentences | 29/38 | 24/38 | 11/15 | | Reading aloud | | | | | Words | 15/25 | 0/25 | 0/25 | | Nonwords | 2/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | | Sentences | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | | Written Naming | | | | | Words | NA | 90/144 | 60/144 | | Writing to dictation (left hand) | | | | | Name, last name, address | OK | OK | OK | | Words | 16/ 24 | 19/28 | 7/18 | | Written comprehension | | | | | Words | 4/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 | | Sentences | 7/8 | 5/8 | 5/8 | | Praxia (Gestures) | | | | | Buccofacial | 11/13 | 5/7 | not done | | Symbolic gestures | 4/5 | 3/5 | 1/4 | | Using objects gestures | 9/10 | 7/10 | 0/4 | | No signification gestures (unimanual) | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | | Calculation | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | | Multiple choice answer | 8/8 | 7/8 | not done | | Others | | | | | Memory Dubois 5 words | 10/10 | not done | not done | | Executive functions (FAB) | 11/18 | 9/18 | 0/12 |
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0 : no production because of speech suppression due to apraxia of speech. : simplified version used in this case. |
