Melissa D Stockbridge, Jordan Elm, Bonnie L Breining, Donna C Tippett, Rajani Sebastian, Christy Cassarly, Abeba Teklehaimanot, Leigh Ann Spell, Shannon M Sheppard, Emilia Vitti, Kristina Ruch, Emily B Goldberg, Catherine Kelly, Lynsey M Keator, Julius Fridriksson, Argye E Hillis
BACKGROUND: Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) is a promising adjunct to therapy for chronic aphasia. METHODS: This single-center, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled efficacy trial tested the hypothesis that anodal tDCS augments language therapy in subacute aphasia. Secondarily, we compared the effect of tDCS on discourse measures and quality of life and compared the effects on naming to previous findings in chronic stroke. Right-handed English speakers with aphasia <3 months after left hemisphere ischemic stroke were included, unless they had prior neurological or psychiatric disease or injury or were taking certain medications (34 excluded; final sample, 58)...
April 2023: Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation