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High definition transcranial direct current stimulation modulates abnormal neurophysiological activity in post-stroke aphasia.


ABSTRACT: Recent findings indicate that measures derived from resting-state magnetoencephalography (rsMEG) are sensitive to cortical dysfunction in post-stroke aphasia. Spectral power and multiscale entropy (MSE) measures show that left-hemispheric areas surrounding the stroke lesion (perilesional) exhibit pathological oscillatory slowing and alterations in signal complexity. In the current study, we tested whether individually-targeted high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) can reduce MEG abnormalities and transiently improve language performance. In eleven chronic aphasia survivors, we devised a method to localize perilesional areas exhibiting peak MSE abnormalities, and subsequently targeted these areas with excitatory/anodal-tDCS, or targeted the contralateral homolog areas with inhibitory/cathodal-tDCS, based on prominent theories of stroke recovery. Pathological MEG slowing in these patients was correlated with aphasia severity. Sentence/phrase repetition accuracy was assessed before and after tDCS. A delayed word reading task was administered inside MEG to assess tDCS-induced neurophysiological changes in relative power and MSE computed on the pre-stimulus and delay task time windows. Results indicated increases in repetition accuracy, decreases in contralateral theta (4-7 Hz) and coarse-scale MSE (slow activity), and increases in perilesional low-gamma (25-50 Hz) and fine-scale MSE (fast activity) after anodal-tDCS, indicating reversal of pathological abnormalities. RsMEG may be a sensitive measure for guiding therapeutic tDCS.

SUBMITTER: Shah-Basak PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7665190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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High definition transcranial direct current stimulation modulates abnormal neurophysiological activity in post-stroke aphasia.

Shah-Basak Priyanka P PP   Sivaratnam Gayatri G   Teti Selina S   Francois-Nienaber Alexander A   Yossofzai Maryam M   Armstrong Sabrina S   Nayar Sumiti S   Jokel Regina R   Meltzer Jed J  

Scientific reports 20201112 1


Recent findings indicate that measures derived from resting-state magnetoencephalography (rsMEG) are sensitive to cortical dysfunction in post-stroke aphasia. Spectral power and multiscale entropy (MSE) measures show that left-hemispheric areas surrounding the stroke lesion (perilesional) exhibit pathological oscillatory slowing and alterations in signal complexity. In the current study, we tested whether individually-targeted high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) can  ...[more]

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