Transcranial direct current stimulation improves swallowing function in stroke patients

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-369

  Shigematsu, Takashi ^a,b   Fujishima, Ichiro ^a   Ohno, Kikuo ^b  

^a Department of Rehabilitation Medicine   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGIA OUTCOME AND SEVERITY SCALE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IPSILESIONAL PHARYNGEAL MOTOR CORTEX; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PENETRATION ASPIRATION SCALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWALLOWING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876160280     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312474116     Document Type: Article

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