Treatment of primary progressive aphasias by transcranial direct current stimulation combined with language training

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 799-808

  Cotelli, Maria ^a   Manenti, Rosa ^a   Petesi, Michela ^a   Brambilla, Michela ^a   Cosseddu, Maura ^b   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b   Padovani, Alessandro ^b,c   Borroni, Barbara ^b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c EULO Ente Universitario Lombardia Orientale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aphasia; frontotemporal dementia; non invasive brain stimulation; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGRAMMATIC VARIANT PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH THERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

APHASIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION; REHABILITATION;

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896860618     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-131427     Document Type: Article

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