The Therapeutic Effect of Inhibitory Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Subcortical Aphasia
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
; : 70-77, 2007.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate whether suppression of right inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's homologue) by 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can improve speech recovery.METHOD:
We applied low frequency rTMS on right Broca's homologue twice a week for 6 weeks in eight subcortical aphasia patients who were 3 months to 3 years poststroke onset. They were tested with Korean Version-Western Aphasia Battery before and after procedure. Also, they were tested with Parallel Short Forms for the Korean-BostonNaming Test and Animal Naming Test serially for outcome measure. rTMS was performed with intensity of 80% of motor threshold for 10 min (600 pulses) at 1 Hz frequency.RESULTS:
Significant improvement was observed in picture naming at post-rTMS only in nonfluent aphasia patients but not in fluent aphasia patients.CONCLUSION:
rTMS may provide a novel treatment for aphasia by possibly modulating the distributed, bi-hemispheric language network.Key words
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Main subject:
Aphasia
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Aphasia, Broca
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Aphasia, Wernicke
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Outcome Assessment, Health Care
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Animals
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Humans
Language:
Ko
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Year:
2007
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Article