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Brain imaging mechanism of acupuncture for post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: a multi-modal MRI study

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Post-stroke aphasia
Registration Number
ITMCTR2100004969
Lead Sponsor
Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with aphasia after Ischemic stroke<=6months; aged 35 to 80 years old;
2. Chinese as first language, right-handed;
3. Diagnosed as non-fluent aphasia by Western Aphasia Battery(WAB), Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination >= 1;
4. Primary school education or above;
5. Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Severe hearing impairments or dysarthria or cognitive impairments likely to affect adherence to study protocol;
2. Aphasia owing to other brain injury or neurodegenerative disease besides stroke;
3. Severe heart, liver, kidney damage likely to influence participation;
4. Patients taking transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) therapy or piperacetam, donepezil, memantine, bromocytine, galantamine and not able to discontinue those therapies after being included in the study;
5. Having MRI contraindications.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination(BDAE);
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Volumetric and cortical thickness data;Diffusion tensor imaging;Western Aphasia Battery(WAB);Resting-state fMRI data;
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