Cognitive and language performance predicts effects of spelling intervention and tDCS in Primary Progressive Aphasia.

ABSTRACT: Predictors of treatment effects allow individual tailoring of treatment characteristics, thereby saving resources and optimizing outcomes. Electrical stimulation coupled with language intervention has shown promising results in improving language performance in individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The current study aimed to identify language and cognitive variables associated with response to therapy consisting of language intervention combined with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Forty individuals with PPA received written naming/spelling intervention combined with anodal tDCS or Sham, using a between-subjects, randomized design, with intervention delivered over a period of 3 weeks. Participants were assessed using a battery of neuropsychological tests befor

SUBMITTER: de Aguiar V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060828 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature