Communication, Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Neurological Diseases

From the same department, D. Kranou-Economidou and M. Kambanaros presented an instructive case study of a 63-year-old male with poststroke aphasia whose working memory (WM) impairment was targeted by the application of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) combined with computerized WM training to improve receptive and expressive language skills, and through this, communication efficiency and QoL. Y. Yu et al. set the question about the relationship between alcohol consumption and cognitive impairment after ischemic stroke, investigating the associations of aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) polymorphisms and alcohol consumption with cognitive impairment in 180 Han Chinese ischemic stroke patients from four community health centers in Bengbu, China. The results showed that ALDH2 polymorphisms (and more specifically, the ALDH2 ∗2 mutant allele) and higher alcohol consumption had a significant synergistic effect on cognitive impairment and swallowing ability after ischemic stroke, indicating that it may be a useful biomarker for cognitive rehabilitation following ischemic stroke. [...]C. Petsani and colleagues reviewed the literature on available studies about the efficacy of rTMS in the treatment of different neurodegenerative parkinsonian disorders, namely, progressive supranuclear palsy