Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii

Differential language recovery in an English-Polish bilingual individual with severe aphasia: a four-year longitudinal case study

Katarzyna E. Polanowska 1
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Aleksandra J. Zielińska-Michalak 1

  1. Department of Neurology and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ppn.2026.164947
Data publikacji online: 2026/09/22
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