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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00567242
Date of registration: 30/11/2007
Primary sponsor: University of Florida
Public title: Treating Intention In Aphasia: Neuroplastic Substrates
Scientific title: Treating Intention In Aphasia: Neuroplastic Substrates
Date of first enrolment: March 2007
Target sample size: 14
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00567242
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Bruce Crosson, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Florida
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Nonfluent aphasia caused by stroke

- Moderate to severe word-finding problems

- 6 or more months post stroke

- Right handed prior to stroke

- All strokes in left hemisphere

- Native English speaker

- Capable of following verbal directions

Exclusion Criteria:

- Severe impairment of word comprehension

- Brain injury or disease in addition to stroke

- Drug or alcohol abuse within past 6 months

- Schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorder necessitating hospitalization

- History of learning disability

- Claustrophobia

- Cardiac pace-maker

- Ferrous metal implants not attached to bone, metal fragments in body

- Profound hearing loss



Age minimum: 21 Years
Age maximum: 95 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Aphasia
Cerebrovascular Accident
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Word-finding with intention component
Behavioral: Word-finding with no intention component
Primary Outcome(s)
Lateralization of Frontal Lobe (and Posterior Perisylvian) Activity During Word Production [Time Frame: immediately post-treatment scan minus pre-treatment baseline scan]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Category Member Generation Probe Scores (% Accuracy) [Time Frame: trend for time series of 8 baseline + 30 treatment sessions]
Picture Naming Probe Scores (% Accuracy) [Time Frame: trend for time series of 8 baseline + 30 treatment sessions]
Secondary ID(s)
R01DC007387
R01DC007387-01A1
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
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