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Spring 2010
Investigations of morphological impairment in aphasia have revealed that patients may retain knowledge of a word’s morphological status even when they cannot access that word (Delazer & Semenza, 1998). In addition, aphasiological investigations have shown that more errors are produced with...
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Spring 2019
Motivation is essential to achieve success in therapy, and as such, a lack of motivation is a significant problem for clients as they work to meet their goals. In this dissertation, I describe two studies that sought to understand better the factors that affect client motivation in order to...
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Pairing Reading Treatment with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Adults with Aphasia
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Background. Damage to language areas of the brain often leads to a language disorder called aphasia, which impairs speech, writing, and understanding. Sixty-eight per cent of people with aphasia (PWA) also present with alexia, a reading impairment. There is an urgent need for efficacious...
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2009
Pretorius, V., Majumdar, S.R., McAlister, F.A., Ross, D.B., Norris, C.M., Kapoor, A.S., Mohamed, R.
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average...
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Resilience and Aphasia: A Case Study
2011-01-13
Sherwood, Heather, Paslawski, Teresa, Prosser, Patricia
The purpose of this research was to determine protective factors that contribute to resilience in individuals with aphasia.
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Spring 2010
This study investigated factors associated with resilience in individuals with aphasia. Resilience is a phenomenon demonstrated when a healthy system of adaptation is present across several levels including individual or personal, family, community or society, in response to exposure to adversity...
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Spring 2017
BCR-ABL fusion oncogene is the main driver mutation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) that controls initiation, maintenance and progression to more aggressive stages of the disease. Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML involve certain limitations, such as drug resistance and...
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2011/30/11
Horricks, Desirae, Blair, Olivia, Smith, Alaina, Nowik, Andrea
This paper outlines the process involved in the development of a speech and language focused workbook that was created in collaboration with the Brain Care Center, in Edmonton, Alberta. ‘A Workbook for Individuals with Aphasia – Take Home Practice for Speech and Language’ was created to support...
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2012-07-04
Sumner, Andrea, Stongman, Tracy
Some individuals with acquired reading impairments (alexia) can read words in sentence contexts easier than in list format. It has been proposed that this may be due to relatively intact sentence production processes (Mitchum et al., 2005). In this project, we investigated this hypothesis in five...