Improved naming after TMS treatments in a chronic, global aphasia patient--case report |
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Authors: | Naeser Margaret A Martin Paula I Nicholas Marjorie Baker Errol H Seekins Heidi Helm-Estabrooks Nancy Cayer-Meade Carol Kobayashi Masahito Theoret Hugo Fregni Felipe Tormos Jose Maria Kurland Jacquie Doron Karl W Pascual-Leone Alvaro |
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Affiliation: | Harold Goodglass Boston University Aphasia Research Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts 02130, USA. mnaeser@bu.edu |
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Abstract: | We report improved ability to name pictures at 2 and 8 months after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments to the pars triangularis portion of right Broca's homologue in a 57 year-old woman with severe nonfluent/global aphasia (6.5 years post left basal ganglia bleed, subcortical lesion). TMS was applied at 1 Hz, 20 minutes a day, 10 days, over a two-week period. She received no speech therapy during the study. One year after her TMS treatments, she entered speech therapy with continued improvement. TMS may have modulated activity in the remaining left and right hemisphere neural network for naming. |
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