Clinical trials: Aphasia Rehabilitation
Primary Progressive Aphasia, Nonfluent Progressive Aphasia
Language Treatment for Progressive Aphasia
Progressive aphasia is characterized by a steady and progressive loss of language skills in the presence of relatively preserved memory, attention, and thinking.
- Conditions
- Primary Progressive Aphasia, Nonfluent Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia
- Trial name
- NCT00957710
- Testing
- Errorless learning
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 7 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baycrest
Aphasia, Language Disorders
Word-Retrieval Treatment for Aphasia: Semantic Feature Analysis
The purpose of this investigation is to further develop and test a treatment for word-finding problems in aphasia. The treatment is designed to strengthen meaning associations within categories of words (e.g., animals, tools…
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Language Disorders, Speech Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT00125242
- Testing
- Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Aphasia
Learning to Communicate Successfully Approach for Urdu Speaking Patients With Chronic Aphasia
This study aims to develop and validate the Learning to Communicate Successfully Approach (LCSA), a culturally sensitive communication intervention manual for Urdu-speaking adults with chronic aphasia.
- Trial name
- LCSA (NCT07889778)
- Testing
- Learning to Communicate Successfully Approach (LCSA)
- Where
- 2 sites in Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Lahore
Stroke, Broca's Aphasia
Assessment of Cortical Stimulation Combined With Rehabilitation to Enhance Recovery in Broca's Aphasia.
The primary objective of this feasibility study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of targeted sub-threshold epidural cortical stimulation delivered concurrent with speech-language rehabilitation activities to enhance…
- Trial name
- NCT00170703
- Testing
- Cortical Electrical Stimulation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Northstar Neuroscience
Aphasia Non Fluent, Stroke
Effectiveness of TDCS Over Broca's Area in Verb Naming: a Randomized, Double-Blind, Crossover Study
This clinical trial investigated whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over Broca's area (F5) could improve verb naming abilities in adults with aphasia.
- Trial name
- NCT06776978
- Testing
- Active treatment
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia
Aphasia, Rehabilitation
Acupuncture + Neuromodulation for Post-Stroke Aphasia
The aim of this clinical trial is to assess the therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture combined with neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of post-stroke aphasia and to explore the brain mechanisms involved.
- Trial name
- NCT06493747
- Testing
- Combined Low- and High-Frequency rTMS Intervention, Combined High- and Low-Frequency rTMS Intervention, rTMS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Yueyang Integrated Medicine Hospital
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Semantic Rehabilitation for Patients With Primary Progressive Semantic Aphasia
This project aims to measure the effect of a semantic rehabilitation protocol for patients with primary progressive semantic aphasia and using the SCED methodology.
- Trial name
- SCED-APPvs (NCT04957537)
- Testing
- semantic therapy and semantic re-education
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Aphasia, Stroke
Effectiveness of Intensive Aphasia Therapy Under Routine Clinical Conditions
The purpose of this study is to examine whether 3 weeks of intensive language therapy provided in clinical in- and outpatient settings is effective in improving everyday communication in postacute/chronic post-stroke aphasia, as…
- Trial name
- FCET2EC (NCT01540383)
- Testing
- Intensive integrative aphasia therapy, Waiting list control group
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 156 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster
Aphasia, Cerebrovascular Accident
Role of the Right Brain in Recovery of Language Function in Chronic Stroke
This study will examine in healthy individuals and in patients with aphasia (a language disturbance that is usually caused by stroke, brain disease, or injury) which parts of the brain are involved in naming everyday objects.
- Trial name
- NCT00076479
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Aphasia, Stroke
Improvement of Language Disturbances After Stroke by Intensive Training and Electrical Brain Stimulation
The study aims to identify if intensive language training, consisting mainly of computer-based object naming, together with electrical brain stimulation, will lead to an improvement of language functions in patients that suffer…
- Trial name
- NCT00822068
- Testing
- anodal tDCS, cathodal tDCS
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster
Non Fluent Aphasia in Subacute Stroke
Dual Hemisphere rTMS for Rehabilitation of Post Stroke Aphasia
To investigate the therapeutic effect of dual hemisphere repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on post-stroke non fluent aphasia.
- Trial name
- NCT01850836
- Testing
- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Stroke Rehabilitation, Aphasia, Broca
Music Therapy for Rehabilitation in Post-stroke Non-fluent Aphasia: the Indian Adaptation
The goal of this Interventional Study is to develop and test the Indian Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for Indian patients in with post-stroke Non-Fluent Aphasia (PSNFA).
- Trial name
- NCT06323330
- Testing
- Speech rehabilitation
- Where
- 3 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Aphasia, Stroke
Effect of Anomia Rehabilitation Combined With Metacognitive Training in Patients With Chronic Vascular Aphasia
The postulate of this study is that rehabilitation combining linguistic and metacognitive training will result in a significant improvement in language performance correlated with changes in functional cerebral connectivity…
- Trial name
- METALEX (NCT06930131)
- Testing
- Semantic rehabilitation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 18 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Aphasia
Study of Modified Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy Schedule to Treat Patients Following Sub-acute Stroke
The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of modified Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (CIAT) in the early sub-acute stage and to examine the efficacy of modified CIAT versus standard treatment with the same…
- Trial name
- MCIAT (NCT01625676)
- Testing
- Investigate efficacy of modified ciat schedule, examine the efficacy of standard treatment versus modified ciat schedule
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- NRZ Magdeburg Median Kliniken GmbH & Co
Aphasia
Improving Electronic Written Communication in Aphasia
People with aphasia have difficulty with writing and often struggle to use electronic communication that connects people to one another.
- Trial name
- T-WRITE (NCT03773419)
- Testing
- Texting Intervention (T-WRITE), HandWriting Intervention (ORLA+WTG)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Aphasia Primary Progressive
Characterisation of Primary Progressives Aphasias
Primary progressive aphasias (PPA) represent a challenging group of degenerative language diseases that has led to growing interest in the scientific and medical community.
- Trial name
- CAPP (NCT02297035)
- Testing
- Behavioural testing, Brain imaging, Genetic screening
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 155 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Stroke, Ischemic, Aphasia Non Fluent
Effects of Neuronavigated Theta Burst Stimulation in Therapy of Post-stroke Aphasia
Aphasia is an impairment in the ability to express and/or understand language, commonly observed after stroke to the language dominant (left) hemisphere.
- Trial name
- NCT05303649
- Testing
- Noninvasive transcranial brain stimulation: excitatory iTBS, Noninvasive transcranial brain stimulation: inhibitory cTBS, Individual speech-language therapy (SLT)
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw
Stroke, Brain Injuries
Brain Mechanisms Underlying Reading Improvement in Central Alexia
Central alexia is a common reading disorder caused by stroke. Patients with central alexia (CA) are slow to read and make frequent errors, and have additional problems with their spoken language. This study has 3 aims: 1.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Brain Injuries, Aphasia
- Trial name
- NCT02062619
- Testing
- Computer-based behavioural word reading therapy, Real tDCS
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Nonfluent Aphasia, Stroke
Augmenting Language Therapy for Aphasia: Levodopa
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the medication levodopa, in combination with speech-language treatment, on the language outcome of study subjects with nonfluent aphasia (i.e.
- Trial name
- NCT01429077
- Testing
- levodopa/carbidopa
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chronic Aphasia
Effects of tDCS Versus HD-tDCS for Stroke Rehabilitation
The purpose of this study is to assess the changes in language processing of patients with chronic aphasia after receiving non-invasive brain stimulation.Previous research using traditional transcranial direct current stimulation…
- Trial name
- tDCS- Aphasia (NCT01651884)
- Testing
- HD-tDCS (Soterix), Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (Neuroconn)
- Sponsor
- Soterix Medical