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Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
- Source :
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 9 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2015.
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Abstract
- Aphasia is a complex disorder, frequent after stroke (with an incidence of 38%), with a detailed pathophysiological characterization. Effective approaches are crucial for devising an efficient rehabilitative strategy, in order to address the everyday life and professional disability. Several rehabilitative procedures are based on psycholinguistic, cognitive, psychosocial or pragmatic approaches, including amongst those with a neurobehavioral approach the Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). Van Eeckhout's adaptation of MIT to French language (Melodic-Rhythmic Therapy: MRT) has implemented the training strategy by adding a rhythmic structure reproducing French prosody. The purpose of this study was to adapt MRT rehabilitation procedures to Italian language and to verify its efficacy in a group of six chronic patients (five males) with severe non-fluent aphasia and without specific aphasic treatments during the previous 9 months. The patients were treated 4 days a week for 16 weeks, with sessions of 30-40 min. They were assessed 6 months after the end of the treatment (follow-up). The patients showed a significant improvement at the Aachener Aphasie Test (AAT) in different fields of spontaneous speech, with superimposable results at the follow-up. Albeit preliminary, these findings support the use of MRT in the rehabilitation after stroke. Specifically, MRT seems to benefit from its stronger structure than the available stimulation-facilitation procedures and allows a better quantification of the rehabilitation efficacy.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Music therapy
medicine.medical_treatment
music therapy
Melodic intonation therapy
lcsh:RC321-571
Behavioral Neuroscience
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Aphasia
medicine
melodic intonation therapy
Prosody
broca
lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Stroke
Biological Psychiatry
Original Research
Aphasia, Broca
melodic rhythmic therapy
Rehabilitation
Cognition
medicine.disease
aphasia
Psychiatry and Mental health
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Neurology
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Psychosocial
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16625161
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a1c0bcf38d380fb4f9c10ac8669436a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00520