Individual Differences in Response to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation With Language Therapy in Subacute Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can be used to improve post-stroke aphasia. However, given the mixed evidence for its efficacy, individual differences may moderate the relative benefit of this strategy. In planned exploratory subgroup analyses, we examined whether age, education, sex, brain-derived neurotrophic factor status, and baseline performance individually impacted improvement in picture naming between baseline and 1 week after the end of the therapy, then whether the combination of factors that predicted recovery of naming and discourse differed for those who received concurrent tDCS.

Objective

Examine whether individual differences influenced the effect of tDCS on language recovery.

Methods

In this randomized, double-blind, sham-cont

SUBMITTER: Stockbridge MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10528733 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature