Language performance and cognitive function in persons with nondominant-hemispheric stroke |
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Authors: | Ji-Wan Ha Gyutae Kim Sung-Bom Pyun |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Speech Pathology,Daegu University,Gyeongsan,South Korea;2.Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,Korea University College of Medicine,Seoul,South Korea |
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Abstract: | This study investigated the relationship between language performance and cognitive function in stroke patients after nondominant hemisphere damage. The results of a battery of formal language tests, K-WAB, of seventy-eight patients were analyzed. The correlation between their K-WAB and K-MMSE scores was analyzed. Multivariate analysis of covariance adjusting for educational years in each of K-WAB and K-MMSE was conducted in accordance with the brain lesion location. Only 35.9 % of patients were classified as normal and the remaining 64.1 % were categorized as subnormal by K-WAB. There was a positive correlation between their language and cognitive functions. Outcomes differed according to lesion location, as the SAH group exhibited a significantly lower performance in both language and cognitive evaluations than the other groups. Cognitive-communicative disorders in stroke patients with nondominant-hemispheric lesions present in different ways. In-depth language evaluation of all brain-damaged patients should be conducted so that language defects of patients are not ignored. |
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