PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - A Monti AU - F Cogiamanian AU - S Marceglia AU - R Ferrucci AU - F Mameli AU - S Mrakic-Sposta AU - M Vergari AU - S Zago AU - A Priori TI - Improved naming after transcranial direct current stimulation in aphasia AID - 10.1136/jnnp.2007.135277 DP - 2008 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry PG - 451--453 VI - 79 IP - 4 4099 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/79/4/451.short 4100 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/79/4/451.full SO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry2008 Apr 01; 79 AB - Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been proposed as an adjuvant technique to improve functional recovery after ischaemic stroke. This study evaluated the effect of tDCS over the left frontotemporal areas in eight chronic non-fluent post-stroke aphasic patients. The protocol consisted of the assessment of picture naming (accuracy and response time) before and immediately after anodal or cathodal tDCS (2 mA, 10 minutes) and sham stimulation. Whereas anodal tDCS and sham tDCS failed to induce any changes, cathodal tDCS significantly improved the accuracy of the picture naming task by a mean of 33.6% (SEM 13.8%).