LUCIA IRACEMA ZANOTTO DE MENDONCA
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Instituto Central, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
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bookPart Transtornos da linguagem no idoso(2014) MENDONçA, Lucia Iracema Zanotto de- Sentence production in rehabilitation of agrammatism: A case study(2014) SILAGI, Marcela Lima; HIRATA, Fernanda Naito; MENDONÇA, Lúcia Iracema Zanotto deAgrammatism is characterized by morphosyntactic deficits in production of sentences. Studies dealing with the treatment of these deficits are scarce and their results controversial. The present study describes the rehabilitation of a case diagnosed as chronic Broca's aphasia, with agrammatism, using a method directed to sentence structural deficits. The method aims to expand the grammatical repertoire by training production of sentences with support from contexts that stimulate actions and dialogues. The patient showed positive results on all types of sentences trained and generalized the gains to spontaneous speech. However, these benefits were not sustained in the long term.
bookPart Neuropsicologia no Brasil(2014) MENDONçA, Lucia Iracema Zanotto de; AZAMBUJA, Debora- Transcranial brain stimulation (TMS and tDCS) for post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation: Controversies(2014) MENDONÇA, Lucia Iracema Zanotto deTranscranial brain stimulation (TS) techniques have been investigated for use in the rehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia. According to previous reports, functional recovery by the left hemisphere improves recovery from aphasia, when compared with right hemisphere participation. TS has been applied to stimulate the activity of the left hemisphere or to inhibit homotopic areas in the right hemisphere. Various factors can interfere with the brain's response to TS, including the size and location of the lesion, the time elapsed since the causal event, and individual differences in the hemispheric language dominance pattern. The following questions are discussed in the present article: [a] Is inhibition of the right hemisphere truly beneficial?; [b] Is the transference of the language network to the left hemisphere truly desirable in all patients?; [c] Is the use of TS during the post-stroke subacute phase truly appropriate? Different patterns of neuroplasticity must occur in post-stroke aphasia.