Individualized treatment with transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with chronic non-fluent aphasia due to stroke.

ABSTRACT: While evidence suggests that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may facilitate language recovery in chronic post-stroke aphasia, individual variability in patient response to different patterns of stimulation remains largely unexplored. We sought to characterize this variability among chronic aphasic individuals, and to explore whether repeated stimulation with an individualized optimal montage could lead to persistent reduction of aphasia severity. In a two-phase study, we first stimulated patients with four active montages (left hemispheric anode or cathode; right hemispheric anode or cathode) and one sham montage (Phase 1). We examined changes in picture naming ability to address (1) variability in response to different montages among our patients, and (2) whether individual

SUBMITTER: Shah-Basak PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4404833 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature