Yinhua Wang, Wanliang Du, Xiaona Yang, Jun Yan, Wei Sun, Jing Bai, Jiong Zhou, Aihong Zhou, Jianping Niu, Chuanling Li, Jian Wang
This review aimed to explore the concept, etiology, classification, classical cortical mapping, assessment, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, mechanism, recovery, prognosis, and influencing factors for Chinese post-stroke aphasia (PSA). The review emphasized the necessity and significance of neuroimaging assessment of brain and blood vessels and neuropsychological assessment in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Chinese PSA. In addition, it suggested and recommended to use "dichotomies of internal and external, and anterior and posterior" as a starting point, based on the anatomic location of brain and blood vessels and their relationship with language area and language disorder...
December 2021: Aging medicine