Crossover trial of subacute computerized aphasia therapy for anomia with the addition of either levodopa or placebo

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-47

  Leemann, Béatrice ^a   Laganaro, Marina ^b   Chetelat Mabillard, Daphné ^a   Schnider, Armin ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Levodopa; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE PLUS LEVODOPA; PLACEBO;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE PATIENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; APHASIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79953862238     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310376938     Document Type: Article

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