Post-Stroke Aphasia Theory of Mind Linked to Cerebral Microbleeds
A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 44 people with chronic post-stroke aphasia found reduced performance on nonverbal false-belief tasks in 23% of participants on the Reality-Unknown task and 36% on the Reality-Known task, with accuracy tied more clearly to cerebral microbleed burden than to aphasia severity.1 The result reframes social-cognitive testing after stroke as a vascular …