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SUBMITTER: Naeser MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3195843 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brain and language 20110823 3
This study sought to discover if an optimum 1 cm(2) area in the non-damaged right hemisphere (RH) was present, which could temporarily improve naming in chronic, nonfluent aphasia patients when suppressed with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Ten minutes of slow, 1Hz rTMS was applied to suppress different RH ROIs in eight aphasia cases. Picture naming and response time (RT) were examined before, and immediately after rTMS. In aphasia patients, suppression of right pars triang ...[more]