Case report: the effects of cerebellar tDCS in bilingual post-stroke aphasia

Silke Coemans; Esli Struys; Kyrana Tsapkini; Philippe Paquier; Dorien Vandenborre; Stefanie Keulen

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1173178

Case report: the effects of cerebellar tDCS in bilingual post-stroke aphasia

Silke Coemans, Esli Struys, Kyrana Tsapkini, Philippe Paquier, Dorien Vandenborre, Stefanie Keulen

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Abstract

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation may be a useful neuromodulation tool for enhancing the effects of speech and language therapy in people with aphasia, but research so far has focused on monolinguals. We present the effects of 9 sessions of anodal cerebellar tDCS (ctDCS) coupled with language therapy in a bilingual patient with chronic post-stroke aphasia caused by left frontal ischemia, in a double-blind, sham-controlled within-subject design. Language therapy was provided in his second language (L2). Both sham and anodal treatment improved trained picture naming in the treated language (L2), while anodal ctDCS in addition improved picture naming of untrained items in L2 and his first language, L1. Picture description improved in L2 and L1 after anodal ctDCS, but not after sham.

Original language	English
Article number	1173178
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages <span style="color:red"p> <font size="1.5"> ✽ </span> </font>	9
Journal	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1173178
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2023

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SC was supported by the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO), Grant No. FWOAL938-Junior Research Project. KT was supported by grants from the Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins University and by the NIH/NIDCD through award R01 DC014475 and NIH/NIA through award R01 AG068881.

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Copyright © 2023 Coemans, Struys, Tsapkini, Paquier, Vandenborre and Keulen.

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