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The purpose of the present study was to survey and compare the knowledge and attitudes of final year occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech-language therapy students, concerning the role of the speech-language therapist as a member of the stroke rehabilitation team in the hospital setting. In order to achieve this aim, a questionnaire was administered to final year students in these three disciplines, and included questions on most areas of stroke rehabilitation with which the speech-language therapist might be involved, as well as the concepts of rehabilitation and teamwork in relation to stroke rehabilitation. Results suggested a fairly good understanding of the concepts of rehabilitation and teamwork. Students appeared to have a greater understanding of those disorders following a stroke, with which the speech-language therapist is commonly involved, such as Aphasia, Dysarthria, Verbal Apraxia and Dysphagia. However, students appeared to show less understanding of those disorders post-stroke, for which the speech-language therapist's role is less well defined, such as Agraphia, Alexia and Amnesia. In addition, a high percentage of role duplication/overlapping in several aspects of stroke rehabilitation, such as family and social support, was found. Several implications for facilitating communication, collaboration and understanding between paramedical professions, as well as for further research are also provided.
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PMID:The knowledge and attitudes of occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech-language therapy students, regarding the speech-language therapist's role in the hospital stroke rehabilitation team. 860 43

We report a 63-year-old right-handed Japanese man with progressive bulbar dysfunction and alexia of kanji (Japanese morphograms). He was well until his 62 years of age, when he noted difficulty of reading kanji, which was followed by disturbances in his speech. Reading of kana (Japanese phonograms) was preserved. He also showed naming difficulties with semantic memory loss for words, which were characterized for word meaning aphasia or semantic dementia. He showed dysarthria and mild dysphagia with atrophy and fasciculations of the tongue. The electromyographic studies disclosed diffuse neurogenic pattern. He was diagnosed as having bulbar type amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography revealed bilateral involvements of the temporal lobes. Our patient appeared to meet the clinical criteria for frontotemporal degeneration of motor neuron disease type, and is the first case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis showing alexia of kanji and word meaning aphasia.
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PMID:[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis presented with alexia of kanji and word meaning aphasia]. 1247 80

We describe a case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with semantic dementia and lower motor neuron disease. A 63-year-old man presented with the full clinical picture of semantic dementia, including semantic anomia, surface alexia, lexical agraphia, associative agnosia, prosopagnosia and phonagnosia. Flaccid dysarthria, bulbar dysphagia and fasciculations developed 7 years after onset, followed by death within a year. The neuropathological examination showed heavy neuronal loss in the anterior temporal lobe cortex, dorsal vagal and hypoglossal nuclei and anterior horns of the spinal cord. Ubiquitin- and TDP-43-positive cytoplasmic inclusions were abundant in layer II of affected cortices and in granular cells of the hippocampal dentate gyrus, whereas dystrophic neurites were sparse and intranuclear inclusions absent. It is concluded that FTLD-TDP type 3 can be associated with semantic dementia and lower motor neuron disease in combination.
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PMID:Semantic dementia with lower motor neuron disease showing FTLD-TDP type 3 pathology (sensu Mackenzie). 2102 4