Zapping the brain to fight back against Dementia's theft of words
NCT ID NCT03887481
Summary
This study is testing whether a gentle, non-invasive electrical brain stimulation can boost the benefits of language therapy for people with logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA), a rare form of early-onset dementia that steals a person's ability to speak and communicate. Researchers at Johns Hopkins will apply the stimulation to two different brain areas while participants do memory and language exercises, to see which approach helps more tasks. The goal is to find a better way to ease the devastating communication symptoms and improve quality of life for patients and their families.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
RECRUITINGBaltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States
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