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Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language

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 rehabil...

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Autores principales: Cortese, Maria Daniela, Riganello, Francesco, Arcuri, Francesco, Pignataro, Luigina Maria, Buglione, Iolanda
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26441615
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00520
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author Cortese, Maria Daniela
Riganello, Francesco
Arcuri, Francesco
Pignataro, Luigina Maria
Buglione, Iolanda
author_facet Cortese, Maria Daniela
Riganello, Francesco
Arcuri, Francesco
Pignataro, Luigina Maria
Buglione, Iolanda
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-45852192015-10-05 Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language Cortese, Maria Daniela Riganello, Francesco Arcuri, Francesco Pignataro, Luigina Maria Buglione, Iolanda Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4585219/ /pubmed/26441615 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00520 Text en Copyright © 2015 Cortese, Riganello, Arcuri, Pignataro and Buglione. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Cortese, Maria Daniela
Riganello, Francesco
Arcuri, Francesco
Pignataro, Luigina Maria
Buglione, Iolanda
Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title_full Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title_fullStr Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title_full_unstemmed Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title_short Rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to Italian language
title_sort rehabilitation of aphasia: application of melodic-rhythmic therapy to italian language
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26441615
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00520
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