Actively Recruiting
Post-Stroke Aphasia TMS
Led by Medical College of Wisconsin · Updated on 2025-09-19
50
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
591 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The investigator proposes to examine the effects of excitatory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) combined with semantic feature analysis (SFA) language therapy to improve word-finding abilities in stroke survivors with aphasia (SWA).
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Post-Stroke Aphasia TMS
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Diagnosed with left hemisphere stroke
- Consent date >= 1 month after stroke onset
- Fluent in English
- 18 years of age or older
You will not qualify if you...
- Severe cognitive, auditory or visual impairments that would preclude cognitive and language testing
- Presence of major untreated or unstable psychiatric disease (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disease)
- A chronic medical condition that is not treated or is unstable
- The presence of cardiac stimulators or pacemakers or intracardiac lines, neurostimulators, medication infusion device, any other implants near the scalp (e.g., cochlear implants) or in the eye, metal in the body (e.g., splinters, fragments, clips)
- Pregnancy
- History of skull fractures, or skin diseases
- History of ongoing or unmanaged seizures
- Presence of factors that potentially decrease seizure thresholds: on pro-convulsant medications, untreated sleep deprivation or insomnia, ongoing alcoholism or illegal drug abuse (e.g., cocaine or MDMA users)
- History of dyslexia or other developmental learning disabilities
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Sidney Schoenrock, MA
CONTACT
A
Ari Hjelmeseth
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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