Post-stroke aphasia
Conditions
Interventions
Healthy control group:Nil
Sponsors
Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
35 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients with aphasia after Ischemic stroke= 1; 4. Primary school education or above; 5. Signed informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Severe hearing impairments or dysarthria or cognitive impairments likely to affect adherence to study protocol; 2. Aphasia owing to other brain injury or neurodegenerative disease besides stroke; 3. Severe heart, liver, kidney damage likely to influence participation; 4. Patients taking transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) therapy or piperacetam, donepezil, memantine, bromocytine, galantamine and not able to discontinue those therapies after being included in the study; 5. Having MRI contraindications.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination(BDAE); | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Volumetric and cortical thickness data;Diffusion tensor imaging;Western Aphasia Battery(WAB);Resting-state fMRI data; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactLv Tianli
Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University
Outcome results
None listed