Mindfulness meditation in aphasia: A case report

Laures‐Gore, Jacqueline; Marshall, Rebecca Shisler

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“…The assessment battery and the MM training described briefly below have been previously reported in a case study (Laures‐Gore and Marshall ) and were conducted in the same order for all participants (Western Aphasia Battery—R, Conners’ Continuous Performance Test—II, Centre for Research on Safe Driving‐Attention Network Test, Naming, Personal Information, and Fluency, Generative Naming, Revised Token Test—5, and Word Productivity). Physiological measures were recorded during the group sessions only.…”

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“…Participants are instructed to respond as quickly as possible by pressing the left/right arrow key on the keyboard. The stimuli are nonverbal and have been used in previous research for individuals with aphasia (Laures‐Gore and Marshall ).…”

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“…Each meeting included a pre‐meditation period (to collect baseline physiological data), instruction, practise, a post‐meditation period (to collect physiological data), and discussion of difficulties and successes. The MM procedure, designed to enhance attention and present‐moment awareness, was modelled after Laures‐Gore and Marshall (), Kabat‐Zinn (), Orenstein et al . (), Wenk‐Sormaz () and Zeidan et al .…”

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“…Other preliminary data have shown improvement in aphasia severity after other types of meditative training (Marshall and Laures‐Gore , Marshall and Panico , Marshall ). Results of two previous case studies reporting use of MM in adults with aphasia are promising and suggest that exploration of its use with a group experimental design is warranted (Laures‐Gore and Marshall , Orenstein et al . ).…”

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“…There is evidence that attention and language skills are closely linked, and both are impaired in aphasia (Murray ). Some earlier studies have shown some encouraging results using relaxation or MM in persons with aphasia (PWA; Marshall and Laures‐Gore , Marshall and Watts , Laures‐Gore and Marshall , Murray and Ray , Orenstein et al . ).…”

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Brief mindfulness meditation group training in aphasia: exploring attention, language and psychophysiological outcomes

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Background: Stroke is currently the leading cause of long-term disability in adults in the United States. There is a need for accessible, low-cost treatments of stroke-related disabilities such as aphasia. Aims: To explore an intervention for aphasia utilizing mindfulness meditation (MM). This preliminary study examines the feasibility of teaching MM to individuals with aphasia. Since physiological measures have not been collected for those with aphasia, the study was also an exploration of the potential attention, language and physiological changes after MM in adults with aphasia during a brief, daily group training. Methods & Procedures:A 5-day MM group training was provided to adults with aphasia (n = 5) with a waitlist control group (n = (3) who engaged in 'mind wandering'. Participants were assigned to groups in a pseudo-random manner. A double baseline (2 days apart) was administered prior to the training and/or control group beginning. Both the training and the control groups met in a group setting. Salivary cortisol, heart rate and heart rate variability were measured during each day for both groups. Measures of attention, auditory comprehension and fluency were collected immediately after the study period and 1 week post-completion. Outcome & Results:This study reinforces findings from previous work indicating that adults with aphasia can learn MM. Although not statistically significant, the training group demonstrated improved fluency immediately after MM; however, changes were not maintained at follow-up. Physiological measures showed little effect associated with MM training. No changes in attention were observed for either group. Conclusion & Implications: This is an emerging area of interest due to the potential low cost of MM training. Furthermore, MM is easily taught to patients, suggesting the possibility for widespread use in clinical practice as a supplement to existing language-focused interventions.

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Neurological Aspects of Foreign Accent Syndrome in Stroke Patients

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Keulen

Verhoeven

2019

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Publications on FAS were identified by means of searches in electronic databases (Medline, PsycINFO, Current Contents, Web of Science). In addition, the bibliographies of all obtained articles were scrutinized to identify additional references. Only first source information was analyzed; second-or third-line references to original contributions were not considered. This resulted in a survey of 172 FAS cases in total.The quality of the collected data was variable as to the degree of reported details. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied to narrow down the corpus for further analysis. Inclusion criteria were defined as (i) the description of a patient in whom a change of accent was observed, and (ii) for whom there was a clear description of the associated etiology in order to avoid misinterpretation of the data. In order to improve the readability of this paper, we have avoided listing cases in the text to which particular statements apply. Rather, we have used single numbers between square brackets to represent series of FAS cases: the association of these numbers and the FAS cases they refer to can be found in table 8.1 in section 8 of this article (list A). The alphabetically ordered list B of table 8.1 enables the reader to identify the paper in which each FAS case is described. A full summary description of individual FAS patients can be consulted in the supplementary materials.Regarding the exclusion criteria, it was decided to exclude cases reported in poster or oral presentations, conference proceedings [1] 1 and unpublished theses [2] 2 . Furthermore, cases were excluded if (i) there was an explicit statement that the etiology was unclear or could not unambiguously be identified as organic or as functional in the above-mentioned meaning by the authors [3], (ii) the etiology was not mentioned [4], (iii) there was doubt about the origin ('suggestive') [5]. Due to linguistic limitations, only articles published in English, Spanish, Norwegian, German or Portuguese were included. One case had to be excluded because a translation could not be obtained, i.e. Tokudo et al. (2015).It should also be mentioned that some of the cases have been reported more than once [6]. When a case occurs in several publications, this is indicated in the the supplementary materials. When considering only 'authentic' cases fulfilling the inclusion criteria, the number of cases amounted to 112 [7]: these were published between 1907 and October 2016. Parietal lobe (right) 36, 85 3 Corpus callosum 53 2Insular region (right) 11 2 Edwards et al. (2005) Case 1* 70/F/NI Traumatic hemorrhage Left parietal/basal ganglia/internal capsule acute: FAS: receded within 4 days (4 weeks follow-up), normal speech and articulation English  Welsh Confusion 43 Edwards et al. (2005) Case 2* 58/M/NI Hemorrhage Left basal ganglia acute: Normal speech and articulation, FAS persisted (1 year follow-up) English  Irish NI 44 Edwards et al. (2005) Case 3* 64/F/NI Infarction Left basal ganglia/internal capsule acute: impaired articulation, agrammatism...

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Mindfulness meditation in aphasia: A case report

Abstract: Given the psychophysiological and behavioral changes observed in this individual, further exploration of the influence of MM in the treatment of post-stroke aphasia is warranted.

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Brief mindfulness meditation group training in aphasia: exploring attention, language and psychophysiological outcomes

Brief mindfulness meditation group training in aphasia: exploring attention, language and psychophysiological outcomes

App-based data collection, mental imagery, and naming performance in adults with aphasia

Neurological Aspects of Foreign Accent Syndrome in Stroke Patients

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