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.
Manenti, R., Petesi, M., Brambilla, M., Rosini, S., Miozzo, A., Padovani, A., Miniussi, C., Cotelli, M., Efficacy of semantic–phonological treatment combined with tDCS for verb retrieval in a patient with aphasia, <<NEUROCASE>>, 2015; 21 (1): 109-119. [doi:10.1080/13554794.2013.873062] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/119979]
Efficacy of semantic–phonological treatment combined with tDCS for verb retrieval in a patient with aphasia
Manenti, Rosa;Cotelli, Maria
2015
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.
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