Repetitive deep transcranial magnetic stimulation improves verbal fluency and written language in a patient with primary progressive aphasia-logopenic variant (LPPA)

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 545-553

  Trebbastoni, Alessandro ^a   Raccah, Ruggero ^b   De Lena, Carlo ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^c   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ATID Ltd Advanced Technology   (Italy)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); H coil; Primary progressive aphasia logopenic variant (LPPA); Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISTRACTIBILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX (DLPFC); H-COIL; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA LOGOPENIC VARIANT (LPPA); REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (RTMS);

APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879947434     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.09.014     Document Type: Article

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