TMS and tDCS in post-stroke aphasia: Integrating novel treatment approaches with mechanisms of plasticity

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-515

  Torres, Jose ^a   Drebing, Daniel ^a   Hamilton, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aphasia; neuroplasticity; stroke; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; POST STROKE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN PRURITUS; SKIN TINGLING; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

APHASIA; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880531856     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-130314     Document Type: Article

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