Treatment of visuospatial neglect with biparietal tDCS and cognitive training: A single-case study

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Brem, Anna Katharine ^a   Unterburger, Evelyn ^b   Speight, Irving ^c   Jäncke, Lutz ^d,e  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Rehabilitation Center   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cognitive therapy; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Visuospatial neglect

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANCELATION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COGNITIVE TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXCITABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LINE BISECTION; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; NEGLECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUOSPATIAL NEGLECT;

EID: 84907603895     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00180     Document Type: Article

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