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Aphasia in Bilinguals

Ardila, A.; Lahiri, D.

2020-04-25 neurology
10.1101/2020.04.22.20075432 medRxiv
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BackgroundLittle is known about the influence of bilingualism in aphasia. AimsTo analyze the effect of bilingualism in a group of patients with aphasia. MethodsData from155 monolingual and 53 bilingual aphasia patients were analyzed. ResultsIt was found that aphasia was significantly less severe in bilinguals when compared to monolinguals (p=0.023) ConclusionBilingualism represents a protecting factor in aphasia. Aphasia is less severe and consequently, recovery is expected to be better in bilingual patients.

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