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. 2019 May 21;2019(5):CD009760. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009760.pub4

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