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

Phase 3UnknownNCT00822068

University Hospital Muenster20 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Aphasia Stroke

Interventions

anodal tDCSDEVICE

anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

cathodal tDCSDEVICE

cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation

sham stimulationDEVICE

sham stimulation

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * chronic stroke (\> 1 year after event) * aphasia due to stroke with naming impairment * German as first language * first-ever stroke Exclusion Criteria: * more than 1 stroke * progressive stroke * history of severe alcohol or drug abuse, psychiatric illnessess like severe depression, poor motivational capacity * dementia * contraindications for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Locations (1)

Department of Neurology, University of Muenster; Department of Neurology, University of Berlin

Muenster / Berlin, NRW/Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of words correctly named after training plus tDCS

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Communicative-Activity-Log & Stroke-and-Aphasia-Quality-of-Life-Scale

Time frame: 1 year

Central Contacts

Agnes Floel, MD

CONTACT

0049 251 83 floeel@uni-muenster.de

Caterina Breitenstein, PhD

CONTACT

0049 251 83 breitens@uni-muenster.de

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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