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E Levita

Publications and source records attributed to E Levita.

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PubMed1986

Spinal cord stimulation revisited: psychological effects.

97 patients undergoing spinal cord stimulation (SCS) were studied for a median of 24 days after initiation of treatment. SCS was associated with significant improvement in memory, visuo-spatial integration, activation, cognitive efficiency, attention and overall psychological status. Significant emotional improvement in self-image, anxiety and depression was also confirmed following SCS. Diagnosis did not differentially affect psychological outcome except for relief of anxiety, which was less pronounced in the case of torticollis and multiple sclerosis. The role of spinal cord modulation of behavioral activation and physiological arousal was discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1986

Characteristics of verbal impairment in closed head injured patients.

One hundred twenty-five closed head injured postcoma patients in a rehabilitation medicine center underwent standardized aphasia tests to determine the presence and nature of verbal deficits. Mean time since injury for the group was 45 weeks. All patients evidenced linguistic impairment which was only apparent on testing, not in conversation. The population fell into three relatively equally sized groups: classic aphasia, dysarthria accompanied by linguistic deficits, and "subclinical" aphasic deficits. No patient with a history of coma after closed head injury was spared defective performance on selected language tasks. The patient groups reflected a severity continuum ranging from aphasia, the most severely impaired group, to the least impaired, the subclinical aphasia group. Further, closed head injured patients with a history of coma who manifest motor speech impairment (dysarthria) also manifest linguistic processing deficits. The study results suggest that linguistic functions are particularly vulnerable in severe head injury.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

Gender and recovery from aphasia after stroke.

Moderate and severely impaired poststroke aphasic patients followed in a rehabilitation medicine program were systematically examined initially between 4 and 6 months poststroke and again between one and 2 1/2 years postonset. No gender differences were found on ratings of everyday communication function or certain measures of language, specifically auditory comprehension and the spontaneous generation of spoken words.

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PubMed1978

Effects of speech therapy on aphasics' responses to Functional Communication Profile.

Protocols of the Functional Communication Profile were compared for 17 treated and 18 untreated aphasic patients. All subjects were post-CVA, right-handed, right hemiplegic native speakers of English representing fluent, non-fluent and global aphasics. All treated patients received a minimum of a half hour of individual and an hour of group speech therapy daily, for 8 wk. during a period between 4 and 12 wk. post-onset. Statistical comparisons of treated and untreated groups did not yield significant differences. Patients who received traditional speech therapy could not be differentiated from untreated control patients.

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