Contribution to the evaluation of language disturbances in subcortical lesions: a piloty study

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria - Tập 62 Số 1 - Trang 51-57 - 2004
Márcia Radanovic1, Letı́cia Lessa Mansur1, Mariana Jardim Azambuja1, Cláudia Sellitto Porto1, Milberto Scaff1
1University of São Paulo

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Subcortical structures are in a strategic functional position within the cognitive networks and their lesion can interfere with a great number of functions. In this study, we describe fourteen subjects with exclusively subcortical vascular lesions (eight in the basal ganglia and six in the thalamus) and the interrelation between their language alterations and other cognitive abilities, as attention, memory and frontal executive functions. All patients were evaluated through the following batteries: Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, Boston Naming Test, Token Test, Benton Visual Retention Test, Trail Making, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and a frontal scripts task. All patients underwent MRI and twelve underwent SPECT. Results show that these patients present impairment in several cognitive domains, especially attention and executive functions. These alterations affect language abilities, and this fact must be considered in the rehabilitation efforts.

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