Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke
Not Applicable
Terminated
- Conditions
- Ischemic Stroke
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Imitate Therapy
- Registration Number
- NCT00713050
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Chicago
- Brief Summary
Our overall goal is to advance the state of functional brain imaging in aphasia, and then to apply the method to an intensive, imitation-based treatment for non-fluent aphasia.
- Detailed Description
Detailed information will follow in the next progress report.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 34
Inclusion Criteria
- Single ischemic infarction in the MCA territory involving the cerebral cortex (confirmed by CT or MRI)
- Aphasia
- Visual attention and language comprehension sufficient to perform imitation fMRI tasks
- Right handed (prior to stroke)
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusions to the study are people with cardiac pacemakers, claustrophobia, neurosurgical clips, or cognitive impairments too severe to permit cooperation with cognitive tasks in an MRI scanner.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Experimental Imitate Therapy Computer-based Aphasia therapy Control Imitate Therapy Control Arm - Healthy subjects.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in scores on Western Aphasia Battery Four months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Solodkin/Small Brain Circuits Laboratory
🇺🇸Irvine, California, United States
University of California Irvine
🇺🇸Irvine, California, United States