NCT04432883Recruiting
Targeted TDCS to Enhance Speech-Language Treatment Outcome in Persons With Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia.
Targeted Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Speech-Language Treatment Outcome in Persons With Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
62 patients who are one year post stroke and have Aphasia as a result of that stroke will be recruited. Participants will have 4 assessment sessions and 15 treatment sessions. The TDCS will be to right Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG) (25 active, 25 sham) for 15 days. A combined semantic feature analysis/phonological components analysis treatment will be paired with the stimulation. Two assessment sessions will be pretreatment, 1 session immediately post-treatment, and 1 session at 3 months follow-up.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 3 Dec 2019
- Start date
- 18 Oct 2022
- Primary completion date
- 26 Mar 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of New Mexico
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04432883
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 50
- From 18 Oct 2022 to the primary completion date, 26 Mar 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- comorbid neurological disease.
- significant mood disorder.
Other
- damage to the anterior right hemisphere.
- substance/alcohol dependence or abuse within the past year
- presence of any implanted electrical device or contraindications to tDCS or MRI
- recent medical instability (within 4 weeks)
- pregnancy
Who the study is looking for
- aged 25-85
- must be greater than 6 months post-stroke
- must have a diagnosis of aphasia based on impaired performance on the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised, Boston Naming Test, or during discourse production
- must be left-hemisphere dominant as demonstrated by aphasia onset subsequent to left hemisphere damage
- must be stimulable for naming
Age in the registry: 25 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of New Mexico Center for Brain Recovery and Repair Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Albuquerque | United States | Recruiting |
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