Good candidates for this therapy include left hemisphere stroke patients, non-fluent aphasias such as Broca's, good auditory comprehension, poor repetition and articulation, and good emotional stability and memory.
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During MIT training sessions, the researchers applied anodal transcranial direct current stimulation ( tDCS ) over the equivalent of Broca's area in the right hemisphere of 6 stroke patients with non-fluent aphasia.
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Moreover, evidence from randomized controlled trials is still needed to confirm that Melodic Intonation Therapy is suitable to improve propositional utterances and speech intelligibility in individuals with ( chronic ) non-fluent aphasia and apraxia of speech.
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Although many studies have illustrated positive effects of music therapy on non-fluent aphasia, these studies tend to be case studies with small Randomized Controlled Trials ( RCTs ) are needed in order to examine the effectiveness of music therapy.
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Recent research suggests that it may not be melodic intonation that facilitates speech production in patients with non-fluent aphasia and apraxia of speech, but formulaic expressions ( e . g ., " How are you ? " ) may have a strong influence on speech production in persons with non-fluent aphasia and apraxia of speech.
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Recent research suggests that it may not be melodic intonation that facilitates speech production in patients with non-fluent aphasia and apraxia of speech, but formulaic expressions ( e . g ., " How are you ? " ) may have a strong influence on speech production in persons with non-fluent aphasia and apraxia of speech.
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Recent classification schemes adopting this approach, such as the " Boston-Neoclassical Model ", also group these classical aphasia subtypes into two larger classes : the nonfluent aphasias ( which encompasses Broca's aphasia and transcortical motor aphasia ) and the fluent aphasias ( which encompasses Wernicke's aphasia, conduction aphasia and transcortical sensory aphasia ).
