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Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Motor Cortex on Language Functions in Residual Aphasia

NCT01845129 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2013-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The present study assesses whether language functions in patients with residual post-stroke aphasia can be improved by transcranial direct current stimulation administered to the primary motor cortex in the language dominant (left) hemisphere.

Conditions

  • Residual Aphasia

Interventions

DEVICE

atDCS

atDCS will be delivered with a constant current of 1 mA during simultaneous resting-state (RS) and task-related (picture naming) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The current will be turned on prior to the RS-fMRI scan and continues for 20 minutes.

DEVICE

sham tDCS

During sham the current will be increeased and decreased in a ramp-like fashion (10 sec)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marcus Meinzer, PhD · Charite, University Medicine, Neurology

  • Agnes Flöel, MD · Charite, University Medicine, Neurology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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