Improvement of Language Disturbances After Stroke by Intensive Training and Electrical Brain Stimulation

Improvement of Aphasia After Stroke by Intensive Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

The study aims to identify if intensive language training, consisting mainly of computer-based object naming, together with electrical brain stimulation, will lead to an improvement of language functions in patients that suffer from language disturbances after a stroke.

Inclusion Criteria:

• chronic stroke (> 1 year after event)
• aphasia due to stroke with naming impairment
• German as first language
• first-ever stroke

Exclusion Criteria:

• more than 1 stroke
• progressive stroke
• history of severe alcohol or drug abuse, psychiatric illnessess like severe depression, poor motivational capacity
• dementia
• contraindications for Magnetic Resonance Imaging