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Enhance of Language Learning with Neurostimulation

NCT00854893 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2024-12-11

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation over the motor cortex of the language dominant hemisphere on language learning in healthy subjects and stroke patients with aphasia. We hypothesize that anodal stimulation enhances the learning of action words compared to sham and cathodal stimulation.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

transcranial direct current stimulation

1 mV for 20 min (verum conditions: anodal and cathodal)or 30 seconds (placebo condition: sham) during language learning , active electrode over primary motor cortex of language dominant hemisphere, reference electrode over contralateral supraorbital area

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gianpiero Liuzzi, MD · Universitätskrankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
86 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-01
Completion
2010-07-01

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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