NCT00822068

Improvement of Language Disturbances After Stroke by Intensive Training and Electrical Brain Stimulation

Improvement of Aphasia After Stroke by Intensive Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Muenster · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to identify if intensive language training, consisting mainly of computer-based object naming, together with electrical brain stimulation, will lead to an improvement of language functions in patients that suffer from language disturbances after a stroke.

Conditions

• Aphasia
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	anodal tDCS	anodal transcranial direct current stimulation
DEVICE	cathodal tDCS	cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation
DEVICE	sham stimulation	sham stimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2009-01-14
• Last updated: 2009-01-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany