QuALiCoMe questionnaire: the possible role of cognitive and linguistic reserve in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia.

By extending the concept of Cognitive Reserve (CR) to the domains of linguistic, communicative and metalinguistic competence, we suppose that the wide variability of recovery among post-stroke aphasic patients with similar initial clinical and demographic characteristics, as well as comparable therapeutic intervention, may be at least partly due to a sort of linguistic subset of CR, namely a ‘‘Linguistic Reserve’’, which may influence a patient’s brain plasticity and neural language networks implied in recovery processes.