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If you watch people communicating one thing quickly becomes obvious. Human beings like to gesture. Most of us gesture while we talk.

There will be times, also, when we use gestures instead of speech, e.g. to ask for a drink in a noisy bar.

What is the purpose of these gestures?

If you have aphasia, can you calculate the following?

5 – 7 =
3/6 – 2/9 =
50 – ((4 + 7) x 4) =
(c – b) x a =

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Trascranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a safe and painless method to stimulate the human brain. TMS uses strong, brief magnetic impulses ..

Intensive communicative aphasia therapy. We have developed a new method for the therapy of aphasia, which practices language in communication context in an intensive manner. The new method has been called Constraint-induced aphasia therapy, or CIAT.