Abstract: Since the symptoms and mechanism of poststroke aphasia are various and complicated, there are a great deal of problems which are difficult to resolve yet. At the aspect of aphasia research, Chinese and Western medicine have different emphases, Chinese medicine emphasizes particularly on therapy, Western medicine emphasizes on discussing mechanism of aphasia, all kinds of sorts and evaluation of aphasia and pertinence rehabilitation, and so on; modern research methods include neurolinguistics, neuropsychology, cognitive science, neurorehabilitation, neuroelectrophysiology, neuroimage and so on, all these means of aphasia research often involve in cross multi-subject, furthermore becoming powerful implement of recognizing brain mechanism.

Key words: poststroke aphasia, Chinese and Western medical research, review