NCT01651884.
Trial name or title | High definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD‐tDCS) for stroke rehabilitation |
Methods | Randomised single‐blind cross‐over trial |
Participants | Estimated enrolment not stated. Right‐handed people, aged 25 to 80 years, with aphasia due to first‐time left‐hemispheric ischaemic stroke, time post‐stroke: at least 6 months, native speaker of English Exclusion criteria: clinically reported history of dementia, alcohol abuse, psychiatric disorder, TBI, or extensive visual acuity or visual‐spatial problems, factors contraindicative of tDCS administration (sensitive scalp, previous brain surgery), seizures during the previous year |
Interventions | Cross‐over assignment to either: ‐ computerised language training + HD‐tDCS (dosage not stated) and then computerised language training + tDCS (dosage not stated) or ‐ computerised language training + tDCS (dosage not stated) and then computerised language training + HD‐tDCS (dosage not stated) Duration of resting periods not stated |
Outcomes | Not described |
Starting date | March 2012 |
Contact information | Julius Fridriksson, PhD, University of South Carolina, Soterix Medical |
Notes | Trial was completed in January 2013 |