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Unpublished Paper
Improved Naming After TMS Treatments in a Chronic Global Aphasia Patient--Case report
Neurocase (2005)
  • Margaret A. Naeser
  • Paula Martin
  • Marjorie Nicholas
  • Errol H. Baker
  • Heidi Seekins
  • Nancy Helm-Estabrooks
  • Carol Cayer-Meade
  • Masahito Kobayashi
  • Hugo Theoret
  • Felipe Fregni
  • Jose Maria Tormos
  • Jacquie Kurland, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Karl W. Doron
  • Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Abstract
We report improved ability to name pictures at 2 and 8 months after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments to the pars triangularis portion of right Broca's homologue in a 57 year-old woman with severe nonfluent/global aphasia (6.5 years post left basal ganglia bleed, subcortical lesion). TMS was applied at 1 Hz, 20 minutes a day, 10 days, over a two-week period. She received no speech therapy during the study. One year after her TMS treatments, she entered speech therapy with continued improvement. TMS may have modulated activity in the remaining left and right hemisphere neural network for naming.
Publication Date
2005
Comments
Prepublished author version. Published version is located http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16006338
Citation Information
Margaret A. Naeser, Paula Martin, Marjorie Nicholas, Errol H. Baker, et al.. "Improved Naming After TMS Treatments in a Chronic Global Aphasia Patient--Case report" Neurocase (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jacquie_kurland/1/