Noninvasive brain stimulation may improve stroke-related dysphagia: A pilot study

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1035-1040

  Kumar, Sandeep ^a,b   Wagner, Cynthia W ^a   Frayne, Colleen ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a   Selim, Magdy ^a   Feng, Wuwei ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

dysphagia; noninvasive brain stimulation; stroke recovery; swallowing recovery; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGIA OUTCOME AND SEVERITY SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SWALLOWING; SWALLOWING SCALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79954572285     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.602128     Document Type: Article

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