Aphasia & Therapy
Welcome to the Aphasia & Therapy website of the Brain Language Laboratory!
German version
The Brain Language Laboratory at the Freie Universität Berlin (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller) offers stroke patients with speech and language impairment the opportunity to participate in an intensive speech-language therapy free of charge.
The treatment takes place in form of a group therapy for 2-3 hours per day over a period of 2 weeks. Our therapy is conducted in German only (see criteria for participation and more detailed information HERE).
Neuropsychological assessments: Prof. Dr. Bettina Mohr
Therapy: Magdalena Jonen
Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in participating in our intensive aphasia treatment:
Verena Arndt
Phone: +49 (0)30 838-58140
Mail: verena.arndt@fu-berlin.de
Magdalena Jonen (Therapy)
Phone: +49 (0)30 838-60291
Mail: magdalena.jonen@fu-berlin.de
General information on our Intensive Language Action Therapy (ILAT), also known as Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (CIAT), as well as on aphasia is available here:
Scientific publications on our aphasia studies:
- Grechuta, K., Ballester, B., Munne, R., Bernal, T., Harvas, B., Mohr, B., Pulvermüller, F., Segundo, R., Verschure, P. 2019. Augmented Dyadic Therapy Boosts Recovery of Language Function in Patients With Nonfluent Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke 50(5). doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023729
- Heikkinen, Paula H., Pulvermüller, Friedemann, Mäkelä, Jyriki, Klippi, Anu: Combining rTMS With Intensive Language-Action Therapy in Chronic Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Front. Neurosci. 1-13 (2019). doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.01036
- Stahl, B., Mohr, B., Büscher, V., Dreyer, F. R., Lucchese, G., & Pulvermüller, F. 2018. Efficacy of intensive aphasia therapy in chronic stroke patients: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 89, 586-592. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2017-315962
- Mohr, B. 2017. Neuroplasticity and functional recovery after intensive language therapy in chronic post stroke aphasia: Which factors are relevant? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fnhum.2017.00332
- Stahl, B., Mohr, B., Dreyer, F.R., Lucchese, G., & Pulvermüller, F. 2017. Communicative-pragmatic assessment is sensitive and time-effective in measuring the outcome of aphasia therapy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00223
- Lucchese, G., Pulvermüller, F., Stahl, B., Dreyer F. & Mohr, B. 2017. Therapy-Induced Neuroplasticity of Language in Chronic Post Stroke Aphasia: A Mismatch Negativity Study of (A)Grammatical And Menaningful/less Mini-Constructions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:699. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00669
- Stahl, B., Mohr, B., Dreyer, F. R., Lucchese, G., & Pulvermuller, F. 2016. Using language for social interaction: Communication mechanisms promote recovery from chronic non-fluent aphasia. Cortex, 85, 90-99. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.09.021
- Mohr, B., MacGregor, L.J., Difrancesco, S., Harrington, K., Pulvermüller, F. & Shtyrov, Y. 2016. Hemispheric contributions to language reorganisation: An MEG study of neuroplasticity in chronic post stroke aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 93(B), 413–424. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.006
- MacGregor, L. J., Difrancesco, S., Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., & Mohr, B. 2015. Ultra-rapid access to words in chronic aphasia: The effects of intensive language-action therapy (ILAT). Brain Topography, 28(2), 279-291. doi: 10.1007/s10548-014-0398-y
- DiFrancesco, S., Pulvermüller, F., & Mohr, B. 2012. Intensive language action therapy: the methods. Aphasiology, 26 (11), 1317-1351. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2012.705815
- Pulvermüller, F., Neininger, B., Elbert, T., Mohr, B., Rockstroh, B., Koebbel, P. & Taub, E. 2001: Constraint-induced therapy of chronic aphasia following stroke. Stroke, 32, 1621-1626.