Predicting Online Behavioural Responses to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Stroke Patients with Anomia.

ABSTRACT: Anomia, or difficulty naming common objects, is the most common, acquired impairment of language. Effective therapeutic interventions for anomia typically involve massed practice at high doses. This requires significant investment from patients and therapists. Aphasia researchers have increasingly looked to neurostimulation to accelerate these treatment effects, but the evidence behind this intervention is sparse and inconsistent. Here, we hypothesised that group-level neurostimulation effects might belie a more systematic structure at the individual level. We sought to test the hypothesis by attempting to predict the immediate (online), individual-level behavioural effects of anodal and sham neurostimulation in 36 chronic patients with anomia, performing naming and size judgement tasks. U

SUBMITTER: Hope TMH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10971124 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature