Aphasia

"Aphasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.

Descriptor ID	D001037
MeSH Number(s)	C10.597.606.150.500.800.100 C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100
Concept/Terms	Aphasia Aphasia Logasthenia Logasthenias Logagnosia Logagnosias Logamnesia Logamnesias Alogia Alogias Anepia Anepias Aphasia, Ageusic Aphasia, Ageusic Ageusic Aphasia Ageusic Aphasias Aphasias, Ageusic Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory Discriminatory Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory Aphasia, Commisural Aphasia, Commisural Aphasias, Commisural Commisural Aphasia Commisural Aphasias Aphasia, Functional Aphasia, Functional Aphasias, Functional Functional Aphasia Functional Aphasias Aphasia, Global Aphasia, Global Aphasias, Global Global Aphasia Global Aphasias Dysphasia, Global Dysphasias, Global Global Dysphasia Global Dysphasias Aphasia, Graphomotor Aphasia, Graphomotor Aphasias, Graphomotor Graphomotor Aphasia Graphomotor Aphasias Aphasia, Intellectual Aphasia, Intellectual Aphasias, Intellectual Intellectual Aphasia Intellectual Aphasias Aphasia, Mixed Aphasia, Mixed Aphasias, Mixed Mixed Aphasia Mixed Aphasias Aphasia, Post-Ictal Aphasia, Post-Ictal Aphasia, Post Ictal Aphasias, Post-Ictal Post-Ictal Aphasia Post-Ictal Aphasias Aphasia, Post-Traumatic Aphasia, Post-Traumatic Aphasia, Post Traumatic Aphasias, Post-Traumatic Post-Traumatic Aphasia Post-Traumatic Aphasias Aphasia, Semantic Aphasia, Semantic Aphasias, Semantic Semantic Aphasia Semantic Aphasias Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon Dejerine Lichtheim Phenomenon Phenomenon, Dejerine-Lichtheim Lichtheim's Sign Lichtheim Sign Lichtheims Sign Sign, Lichtheim's Dysphasia Dysphasia Aphasia, Syntactical Aphasia, Syntactical Aphasias, Syntactical Syntactical Aphasia Syntactical Aphasias Aphasia, Progressive Aphasia, Progressive Aphasias, Progressive Progressive Aphasia Progressive Aphasias Aphasia, Acquired Aphasia, Acquired Acquired Aphasia

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Diseases [C]
Nervous System Diseases [C10]
Neurologic Manifestations [C10.597]
Neurobehavioral Manifestations [C10.597.606]
Communication Disorders [C10.597.606.150]
Language Disorders [C10.597.606.150.500]
Speech Disorders [C10.597.606.150.500.800]
Aphasia [C10.597.606.150.500.800.100]
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms [C23]
Signs and Symptoms [C23.888]
Neurologic Manifestations [C23.888.592]
Neurobehavioral Manifestations [C23.888.592.604]
Communication Disorders [C23.888.592.604.150]
Language Disorders [C23.888.592.604.150.500]
Speech Disorders [C23.888.592.604.150.500.800]
Aphasia [C23.888.592.604.150.500.800.100]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Aphasia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Aphasia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 40 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2011 and 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2005	1	1	2
2006	1	0	1
2008	3	0	3
2009	3	0	3
2010	1	0	1
2011	4	0	4
2012	3	0	3
2013	3	0	3
2014	1	2	3
2015	3	1	4
2016	2	0	2
2017	2	0	2
2019	1	0	1
2020	3	0	3
2022	1	0	1
2023	2	0	2
2025	2	0	2

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Farahbod H, Rogalsky C, Keator LM, Cai J, Pillay SB, LaCroix AN, Fridriksson J, Binder JR, Venezia JH, Saberi K, Hickok G. Audiovisual Synchrony in Left-hemisphere Brain-lesioned Individuals with Aphasia. J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 11 01; 37(11):2190-2202.

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Zhu H, Fitzhugh MC, Keator LM, Johnson L, Rorden C, Bonilha L, Fridriksson J, Rogalsky C. How Can Graph Theory Inform the Dual-stream Model of Speech Processing? A Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Stroke and Aphasia Symptomology. J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 03 01; 37(3):737-766.

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Krason A, Vigliocco G, Mailend ML, Stoll H, Varley R, Buxbaum LJ. Benefit of visual speech information for word comprehension in post-stroke aphasia. Cortex. 2023 08; 165:86-100.

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Stockbridge MD, Elm J, Breining BL, Tippett DC, Sebastian R, Cassarly C, Teklehaimanot A, Spell LA, Sheppard SM, Vitti E, Ruch K, Goldberg EB, Kelly C, Keator LM, Fridriksson J, Hillis AE. Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation in Subacute Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke. 2023 04; 54(4):912-920.

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Middleton EL, Schwartz MF, Dell GS, Brecher A. Learning from errors: Exploration of the monitoring learning effect. Cognition. 2022 07; 224:105057.

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Keator LM, Faria AV, Kim KT, Saxena S, Wright AE, Sheppard SM, Breining BL, Goldberg E, Tippett DC, Meier E, Hillis AE. An Efficient Bedside Measure Yields Prognostic Implications for Language Recovery in Acute Stroke Patients. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2020 09; 33(3):192-200.

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Keator LM, Basilakos A, Rorden C, Elm J, Bonilha L, Fridriksson J. Clinical Implementation of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Aphasia: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2020 08 04; 29(3):1376-1388.

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Stoll H, de Wit MM, Middleton EL, Buxbaum LJ. Treating limb apraxia via action semantics: a preliminary study. Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2021 Aug; 31(7):1145-1162.

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Mirman D, Kraft AE, Harvey DY, Brecher AR, Schwartz MF. Mapping articulatory and grammatical subcomponents of fluency deficits in post-stroke aphasia. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2019 10; 19(5):1286-1298.

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Pustina D, Coslett HB, Ungar L, Faseyitan OK, Medaglia JD, Avants B, Schwartz MF. Enhanced estimations of post-stroke aphasia severity using stacked multimodal predictions. Hum Brain Mapp. 2017 11; 38(11):5603-5615.

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