The Predict4All open-source word prediction and word correction engine in French language: a feasibility study.

Purpose: Information and communication technologies are crucial for social and professional integration, but access to technology can be difficult for people with physical impairments. Text entry can be slow and tiring. We developed a free and open-source module called for use with AAC (augmentative/alternative communication) software in French language.

Aphasia outcome: the interactions between initial severity, lesion size and location.

Objectives: The outcome of aphasia at 3 months is variable in patients with moderate/severe stroke. The aim was to predict 3-month aphasia outcome using prediction models including initial severity in addition to the interaction between lesion size and location at the acute phase.

Methods: Patients with post-stroke aphasia (assessed by the Aphasia Rapid Test at day 7-ART D7) and MRI performed at day 1 were enrolled (n = 73).

Critical brain regions related to post-stroke aphasia severity identified by early diffusion imaging are not the same when predicting short- and long-term outcome.

Objectives: To identify the critical brain regions associated with 7-days, 3 and 6-months aphasia severity using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in acute post-stroke patients.

Materials And Methods: We performed a voxel-based ADC (Apparent Diffusion Coefficient) analysis to identify the critical brain areas correlated with aphasia at the acute (7-days outcome) and chronic stages (3 and 6-months). The location of these areas was compared with the trajectory of the dorsal (the arcuate fasciculus) and the ventral language pathways (the inferior fronto-occipital and the uncinate fasciculi).

Aphasia severity in chronic stroke patients: a combined disconnection in the dorsal and ventral language pathways.

Background: The contribution of lesion size and location in poststroke aphasia is debated, especially the extent to which aphasia severity is affected by damage to specific white matter areas.

Objective: To identify specific white matter areas critical for poststroke aphasia global severity and to determine whether injury to these areas had more impact on aphasia severity than the infarct volume.

Methods: Twenty-three chronic poststroke aphasic patients were assessed with the Aphasia Rapid Test (ART) and the Boston Diagnosis Aphasia Examination (BDAE) global severity scales and underwent diffusion tensor and structural imaging.

Damage to the medial motor system in stroke patients with motor neglect.

Background And Objectives: Motor neglect (MN) is a clinically important condition whereby patients with unilateral brain lesions fail to move their contralateral limbs, despite normal muscle strength, reflexes, and sensation. MN has been associated with various lesion sites, including the parietal and frontal cortex, the internal capsule, the lenticulostriate nuclei, and the thalamus. In the present study, we explored the hypothesis that MN depends on a dysfunction of the medial motor system by performing a detailed anatomical analysis in four patients with MN.