Clinical trials: Anomia
Stroke
Speech Therapy for Aphasia: Comparing Two Treatments
This is a behavioral speech therapy trial for individuals who have suffered a stroke on the left side of the brain and have difficulty speaking.
- Trial name
- PMvSFA (NCT02153710)
- Testing
- Semantic Feature Analysis therapy, Phonomotor Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Stroke, Aphasia
Digital Interventions in Neurorehabilitation: iTALKbetter
iTALKBetter will provide an app-based therapy for people with word retrieval difficulties who have had a stroke. This study aims to test the therapy application for people with naming difficulties through a small scale…
- Conditions
- Stroke, Aphasia, Anomia
- Trial name
- NCT04566081
- Testing
- iTalkBetter Trained Items, iTalkBetter Untrained Items
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease
Digital Interventions in Neuro-Rehabilitation: Gotcha!
Aims and background Everyone forgets the names of people they should know at times. Having dementia makes this problem worse. People with dementia have told expressed they forget the names of people they care about and this can…
- Conditions
- Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Anomia
- Trial name
- NCT04570215
- Testing
- Gotcha! Therapy application, Gotcha Therapy application: Maintenance
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Traumatic Brain Injury, Word Finding Difficulty
Treating Civilian Traumatic Brain Injury With High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (ciTBI-HDtDCS)
The purpose of the study is to test whether low level electric stimulation, called transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), on the part of the brain (i.e., pre-supplementary motor area) thought to aid in memory will…
- Conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Word Finding Difficulty, Acquired Brain Injury, Cognitive Change
- Trial name
- NCT05408975
- Testing
- Active Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas at Dallas
Primary Progressive Aphasia, PPA
Rehabilitating and Decelerating Language Loss in Primary Progressive Aphasia With tDCS Plus Language Therapy
People with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) are is a debilitating disorder characterized by the gradual loss of language functioning, even though cognitive functioning is relatively well preserved until the advanced stages of…
- Trial name
- NCT03728582
- Testing
- Active tDCS plus Speech-Language Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University