Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Ischemic Stroke

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00713050

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

34

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-06-11

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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)

You may not qualify if…

• 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.

Where it is running

• Solodkin/Small Brain Circuits Laboratory — Irvine, California, United States
• University of California Irvine — Irvine, California, United States

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