Status:

TERMINATED

Speech and Language Therapy After Stroke

Lead Sponsor:

University of Chicago

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Conditions:

Ischemic Stroke

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Detailed information will follow in the next progress report.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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)

Exclusion

  • 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.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2012

Estimated Enrollment :

34 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00713050

Start Date

August 1 2007

End Date

January 1 2012

Last Update

June 11 2013

Active Locations (2)

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Solodkin/Small Brain Circuits Laboratory

Irvine, California, United States, 92697

2

University of California Irvine

Irvine, California, United States, 92697