Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for improving aphasia in patients after stroke

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Elsner, Bernhard ^a   Kugler, Joachim ^a   Pohl, Marcus ^b   Mehrholz, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE REHABILITATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ADULT; COMPLICATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKULL;

ADULT; APHASIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKULL; STROKE;

EID: 84891705978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009760.pub2     Document Type: Review

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