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Study NCT ID: NCT00854893
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2024-12-11
First Post: 2009-03-02
Is NOT Gene Therapy: True
Has Adverse Events: False

Brief Title: Enhance of Language Learning with Neurostimulation
Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Organization:

Study Overview

Official Title: Enhance of Language Learning with Neurostimulation (transcranial Direct Current Stimulation)
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2022-08
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to test the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation over the motor cortex of the language dominant hemisphere on language learning in healthy subjects and stroke patients with aphasia. We hypothesize that anodal stimulation enhances the learning of action words compared to sham and cathodal stimulation.
Detailed Description: The motor cortex is involved at different levels of language processing. It has been demonstrated that the perception of action words activates motor representations in the language-dominant hemisphere. However, it is not known whether modulation of excitability has an effect on learning new action words. Thus, we hypothesize that transcranial direct current stimulation over the motor cortex of the language-dominant hemiphere modulates the acquisition of new action words. The results bear the potential to design new rehabilitative strategies in stroke patients with aphasia. The motor cortex might offer an access to the language network that can be used for interventional approaches such as neurostimulation.

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: True
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: None
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:

Secondary ID Infos

Secondary ID Type Domain Link View
LI 1892/1-1 OTHER_GRANT Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) View