https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/shin1-rz-2994
Thalamic stroke may result in cognitive and linguistic problems, but the underlying mechanism remains unknown. Especially, it is still a matter of debate why thalamic aphasia occasionally occurs and then mostly recovers to some degree. We begin with a brief overview of the cognitive dysfunction and aphasia, and then review previous hypotheses of the underlying mechanism. We introduced a unique characteristic of relatively transient "word retrieval difficulty" of patients in acute phase of thalamic stroke. Word retrieval ability in