Phonemic fluency improved after inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation in a case of chronic aphasia

Twenty-six months after a left hemispheric ischemic stroke an aphasic patient showed a significant improvement in verbal fluency following ten daily sessions of inhibitory 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right cortex homologous to the Broca’s area. No improvement was obser...

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Autores principales: Rossetti, Angela, Malfitano, Calogero, Malloggi, Chiara, Banco, Elisabetta, Rota, Viviana, Tesio, Luigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2019
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6382039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30300167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MRR.0000000000000322
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Sumario:Twenty-six months after a left hemispheric ischemic stroke an aphasic patient showed a significant improvement in verbal fluency following ten daily sessions of inhibitory 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right cortex homologous to the Broca’s area. No improvement was observed for other linguistic functions or for executive ones. Results confirm the segregation of neural circuitries subtending phonemic and semantic fluency and suggest a selective usefulness of the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment.

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