Cognitive enhancing drugs in aphasia: A vote for hope

Berthier, Marcelo L.

doi:10.1080/02687038.2013.857756

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“…The results with drugs have not been very impressive till now, but prospects are improving. [58] Pharmacological augmentation of the speech therapy may be more robust and reliable with stimulants, cholinesterase inhibitors, dopamine agonists, and other medications. While drugs alone may not result in significant improvement, agents such as memantine have been shown to enhance outcomes of SLT in combination.…”

Section: Session 13: Biological Therapiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expert group meeting on aphasia: A report

Pauranik

George²,

Sahu³

et al. 2019

Ann Indian Acad Neurol

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A multidisciplinary team of experts took stock of the current state of affairs about many aspects of aphasia in India, including community burden, diagnostic assessment, therapy, rehabilitation, research, education, and advocacy. The broad spectrum of aphasiology was matched by the types of participants ranging from neurologists, speech-language pathologists, clinical psychologists, linguists, to experts in neuroimaging and computer sciences. Threadbare discussion in 16 sessions over 3 days leads to the identification of pressing problems and possible solutions. Many action plans have been envisaged and recommendations made. A few examples with high priority are community-based and hospital-based study incidence and prevalence of aphasia, development of test batteries for the assessment of many components of speech and communication in Indian languages which are validated on rigorous psychometric, and linguistic criteria, national registry for aphasia, educational modules about aphasia for different target groups, resources for advocacy and its training, a bank of research questions and outlines of research protocols for young professionals to pursue. The expert group will continue to oversee execution of some of the actionable plans in short and long term.

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Section: Session 13: Biological Therapiesmentioning

confidence: 99%