Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Aphasic Stroke A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

• Published in: Stroke (1970) Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 409 - 415
• Main Authors: Weiduschat, Nora, Thiel, Alexander, Rubi-Fessen, Ilona, Hartmann, Alexander, Kessler, Josef, Merl, Patrick, Kracht, Lutz, Rommel, Thomas, Heiss, Wolf Dieter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.02.2011
• Subjects: Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; aphasia; Aphasia - diagnosis; Aphasia - etiology; Aphasia - therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Female; Follow-Up Studies; frontal gyrus; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Hemispheric laterality; Humans; Language; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neuroimaging; Neurology; Pilot Projects; Positron emission tomography; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Recruitment; Side effects; speech; Stroke; Stroke - complications; Stroke - diagnosis; Stroke - therapy; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - methods; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Vascular disease; Stroke; Nervous system diseases; Treatment; Central nervous system disease; Plasticity; Cardiovascular disease; recovery; transcranial magnetic stimulation; Cerebrovascular disease; Cerebral disorder

Although functional imaging studies suggest that recruitment of contralesional areas hinders optimal functional reorganization in patients with aphasic stroke, only limited evidence is available on the efficacy of noninvasive brain stimulation such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation aim...