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Repeated sessions of noninvasive brain DC stimulation is associated with motor function improvement in stroke patients
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Purpose: Recent evidence has suggested that a simple technique of noninvasive brain stimulation – transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) – is associated with a significant motor function improvement in stroke patients. Methods: We tested the motor performance improvement in stroke patients following 4 weekly sessions of sham, anodal- and cathodal tDCS (experiment 1) and the effects of 5 consecutive daily sessions of cathodal tDCS (experiment 2). A blinded rater evaluated motor function using the Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test. Results: There was a significant main effect of stimulation condition (p=0.009) in experiment 1. Furthermore there was a significant motor function improvement after either cathodal tDCS of the unaffected hemisphere (p=0.016) or anodal tDCS of the affected hemisphere (p=0.046) when compared to sham tDCS. There was no cumulative effect associated with weekly sessions of tDCS, however consecutive daily sessions of tDCS (experiment 2) were associated with a significant effect on time (p< 0.0001) that lasted for 2 weeks after treatment. Conclusions: The findings of our study support previous research showing that tDCS is significantly associated with motor function improvement in stroke patients; and support that consecutive daily sessions of tDCS might increase its behavioral effects. Because the technique of tDCS is simple, safe and non-expensive; our findings support further research on the use of this technique for the rehabilitation of patients with stroke.
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- Boggio, P. S., Nunes, A., Rigonatti, S. P., Nitsche, M. A., Pascual-Leone, A., & Fregni, F.
- Venue
- Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-01-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 123-129
- ISSN
- 0922-6028 (ISSN-L)
- 1878-3627
- OpenAlex
- W196616672
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 10.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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