Publications by authors named "Sachi Paul"

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  • About one third of stroke survivors experience post-stroke depression, which negatively impacts their quality of life, especially in those with chronic left-hemisphere stroke and a history of aphasia.
  • A study involving 92 stroke survivors and 70 controls used the Beck Depression Inventory-II to measure depression and various scales to assess stroke-related disabilities, revealing that stroke survivors had significantly higher depression scores.
  • The analysis indicated that lower cognitive, social participation, and perceived recovery scores were strongly linked to higher depression levels, highlighting the complexity of factors influencing depression post-stroke.
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Language function in the brain, once thought to be highly localized, is now appreciated as relying on a connected but distributed network. The semantic system is of particular interest in the language domain because of its hypothesized integration of information across multiple cortical regions. Previous work in healthy individuals has focused on group-level functional connectivity (FC) analyses of the semantic system, which may obscure interindividual differences driving variance in performance.

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Background And Objectives: A prominent theory proposes that neuroplastic recruitment of perilesional tissue supports aphasia recovery, especially when language-capable cortex is spared by smaller lesions. This theory has rarely been tested directly and findings have been inconclusive. We tested the perilesional plasticity hypothesis using 2 fMRI tasks in 2 groups of patients with previous aphasia diagnosis.

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Single case cognitive neuropsychological investigations involve the precise characterization of cognitive impairment at the level of an individual participant. This deep data precision affords a more fine-grained understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of complex tasks, and continues to provide unique insights that inform theory in cognitive neuroscience. Here, we present a single case study of an individual, F.

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