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Improvement of Language Disturbances After Stroke by Intensive Training and Electrical Brain Stimulation

NCT00822068 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2009-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study aims to identify if intensive language training, consisting mainly of computer-based object naming, together with electrical brain stimulation, will lead to an improvement of language functions in patients that suffer from language disturbances after a stroke.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

anodal tDCS

anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

DEVICE

cathodal tDCS

cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation

DEVICE

sham stimulation

sham stimulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Muenster

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Agnes Floel, MD · Department of Neurology, University of Muenster; Department of Neurology, University of Berlin, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

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