Improved naming after transcranial direct current stimulation in aphasia Export

@article{citeulike:2538309, abstract = {Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been proposed as an adjuvant technique to improve functional recovery after ischaemic stroke. This study evaluated the effect of tDCS over the left frontotemporal areas in eight chronic non-fluent post-stroke aphasic patients. The protocol consisted of the assessment of picture naming (accuracy and response time) before and immediately after anodal or cathodal tDCS (2 mA, 10 minutes) and sham stimulation. Whereas anodal tDCS and sham tDCS failed to induce any changes, cathodal tDCS significantly improved the accuracy of the picture naming task by a mean of 33.6\% (SEM 13.8\%). 10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277}, author = {Monti, A. and Cogiamanian, F. and Marceglia, S. and Ferrucci, R. and Mameli, F. and Mrakic-Sposta, S. and Vergari, M. and Zago, S. and Priori, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2538309}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/79/4/451}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18096677}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18096677}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277}, journal = {J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry}, keywords = {aphasia, rtms}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {451--453}, posted-at = {2008-03-16 00:16:35}, priority = {1}, title = {Improved naming after transcranial direct current stimulation in aphasia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277}, volume = {79}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2538309 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2538309 N2 - Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been proposed as an adjuvant technique to improve functional recovery after ischaemic stroke. This study evaluated the effect of tDCS over the left frontotemporal areas in eight chronic non-fluent post-stroke aphasic patients. The protocol consisted of the assessment of picture naming (accuracy and response time) before and immediately after anodal or cathodal tDCS (2 mA, 10 minutes) and sham stimulation. Whereas anodal tDCS and sham tDCS failed to induce any changes, cathodal tDCS significantly improved the accuracy of the picture naming task by a mean of 33.6% (SEM 13.8%). 10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277 IS - 4 JF - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry EP - 453 TI - Improved naming after transcranial direct current stimulation in aphasia VL - 79 SP - 451 KW - aphasia KW - rtms AU - Monti, A AU - Cogiamanian, F AU - Marceglia, S AU - Ferrucci, R AU - Mameli, F AU - Mrakic-Sposta, S AU - Vergari, M AU - Zago, S AU - Priori, A PY - 2008/04/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277 ER -