Treatment of severe expressive dysphasia with rTMS and language therapy after childhood stroke.

Childhood stroke causes lifelong language disability. Expressive dysphasia accompanies left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG/Broca) injury. Recovery and therapy effects may relate to interhemispheric balance with homologous, contralesional IFG. Inhibiting contralesional IFG with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may improve adult stroke dysphasia but is unexplored in children.

Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - March 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Helen L. Carlson, Aleksandra Mineyko, Omar Damji, Zeanna Zadavji, Rebecca Patzelt, Anya Mazur-Mosiewicz, Adam Kirton Tags: Abstracts Presented at NYC Neuromodulation 2013 Source Type: research