Table 2.
Cognitive and motor scores pre- and post-treatment and adverse symptoms reported before each session; and daily Digit Span testing prior to tDCS stimulation
| ID | Paretic Hand Box and Block Test (number of blocks) | Non-paretic Hand Box and Block Test (number of blocks) | Digit Span Forward Test (number of digits) | Adverse Symptoms Reported | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Posttest | Baseline | Posttest | Baseline | Posttest | |||||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 70 | 73 | 15 | 14 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | |||||
| 2 | 10 | 5 | 50 | 49 | 6 | 6 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | |||||
| 3 | 17 | 21 | 52 | 56 | 9 | 9 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | |||||
| 4 | 15 | 19 | 52 | 55 | 8 | 11 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | |||||
| 5 | 27 | 28 | 72 | 71 | 10 | 10 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | |||||
| 6 | 36 | 38 | 67 | 78 | 12 | 15 | None | |||
| Daily Digit Span test | 12 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 15 | |||||
| Mean (SD) | 18.17 (11.62) | 19.00 (13.40) | 60.05 (10.19) | 63.67 (11.79) | 10.00 (3.16) | 10.83 (3.31) | ||||
| % improvement - Total Group |
4.59% | 5.23% | 8.33% | |||||||
| - Treatment responders (#3–6) | 11.58% | 7.00% | 15.38% | |||||||