Finding the Right Words
From: Northwestern Alumni Magazine - Fall 2013 - page 15

New center will help people with aphasia regain language functionality.

Not long ago, stroke sufferers who lost the ability to talk were thought to
have less than a year to recover language function. In her three decades of
research, Northwestern professor Cynthia Thompson has demonstrated the
brain's plasticity and shown that, with appropriate training, gains can be
made a decade or more after a stroke.

"The interesting thing about aphasia is it doesn't affect any other cognitive
systems," says Thompson, one of the leading experts on aphasia. "These people
are intelligent. They're not impaired, except for when they need to use
language, either reading, writing, talking, or listening."

Read the entire article at:
http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall2013/campuslife/finding-the-right-words.html

Links:
Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory
http://comm.soc.northwestern.edu/aphasia/

$12 Million for a Center for Research on Aphasia
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/03/12-million-for-a-center-for-research-on-aphasia.html

Cynthia Thompson
http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/?PID=CynthiaThompson

NIDCD Establishes New Center for Aphasia Research 
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/inside/sum2013/Pages/pg2.aspx