Recent studies reported enhanced performance on language tasks induced by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with aphasia. One chronic patient with non-fluent aphasia received 20 sessions of a verb anomia training combined with off-line bihemispheric tDCS applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) - anodal tDCS over left DLPFC plus cathodal tDCS over right DLPFC. A significant improvement in verb naming was observed at all testing times (4, 12, 24, and 48 weeks from post-entry/baseline testing) for treated and untreated verbs. Our findings show beneficial effects of verb anomia training in combination with tDCS in chronic aphasic patient, suggesting a long-lasting effect of this treatment.
Efficacy of semantic-phonological treatment combined with tDCS for verb retrieval in a patient with aphasia / R., Manenti; M., Petesi; M., Brambilla; S., Rosini; A., Miozzo; A., Padovani; Miniussi, Carlo; M., Cotelli. - In: NEUROCASE. - ISSN 1355-4794. - 2014, 21:1(2014), pp. 109-119. [10.1080/13554794.2013.873062]
Efficacy of semantic-phonological treatment combined with tDCS for verb retrieval in a patient with aphasia
Miniussi, Carlo;
2014-01-01
Abstract
Recent studies reported enhanced performance on language tasks induced by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with aphasia. One chronic patient with non-fluent aphasia received 20 sessions of a verb anomia training combined with off-line bihemispheric tDCS applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) - anodal tDCS over left DLPFC plus cathodal tDCS over right DLPFC. A significant improvement in verb naming was observed at all testing times (4, 12, 24, and 48 weeks from post-entry/baseline testing) for treated and untreated verbs. Our findings show beneficial effects of verb anomia training in combination with tDCS in chronic aphasic patient, suggesting a long-lasting effect of this treatment.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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