Improving Aphasia Using Electrical Brain Stimulation
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Official title
Improving Aphasia Outcomes Through tDCS-Mediated Attention Management
Brief summary
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Language and communication are essential for almost every aspect of human life, but for people who have aphasia, a language processing disorder that can occur after stroke or brain injury, even simple conversations can become a formidable challenge. Speech and language therapy can help people recover their language ability, but often requires months or even years of therapy before a person is able to overcome these challenges. This research will investigate non-invasive brain stimulation as a way to enhance the effects of speech and language therapy, which may ultimately lead to better and faster recovery from stroke and aphasia. The investigators hypothesize that participants with aphasia who receive speech and language therapy paired with active electrical brain stimulation will improve significantly more on a language comprehension task than those who receive speech and language therapy paired with sham stimulation.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04963803
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 23 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) Device
- Sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) Device
- Language Specific Attention Treatment Behavioral
Device · Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 11, 2021
- Primary completion
- Nov 14, 2024
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2024
- Last update posted
- Jan 29, 2026
2021 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse University | Syracuse | New York | 13244 | — |
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