NCT02101398

Study of the Effect of Transcranial Stimulations in Aphasic Subject Within a Year of Their Stroke

Etude de l'Effet de Stimulations transcrâniennes en Courant Continu (tDCS) Sur Les Performances en dénomination Chez le Sujet Aphasique à Moins d'un an de Son Accident Vasculaire cérébral : Comparaison de 5 Configurations de Stimulation

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this work is to study the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with naming therapy in acute and post-acute stroke comparing four bihemispheric positioning electrodes to a sham condition.

Detailed description

TDCS have shown a positive effect on clinical outcome in naming treatment in aphasic subjects however some aspects as the positioning of the electrodes on the head are still unclear. That is why we compare the effects of four different positionings of the electrodes (two anterior over Broca's area and its homologue and two posterior over Wernicke's area and its homologue) to a sham stimulation in order to observe if a more important effect of one or another positioning could be found.

Conditions

• Aphasia
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	eldith DC-stimulator, configuration F7A	tDCS will be delivered during a 20 minutes speech-language therapy session
DEVICE	eldith DC-stimulator, configuration F7C	tDCS will be delivered during a 20 minutes speech-language therapy session
DEVICE	eldith DC-stimulator, configuration T5A	tDCS will be delivered during a 20 minutes speech-language therapy session
DEVICE	eldith DC-stimulator, configuration T5C	tDCS will be delivered during a 20 minutes speech-language therapy session
DEVICE	eldith DC-stimulator, configuration Sham	Sham tDCS will be delivered during a 20 minutes speech-language therapy session

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-02
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2014-04-02
• Last updated: 2025-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France