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ArticleCoDAS2022

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in writing: a case report of deep agraphia.

Nathani Cristine do Carmo Ramos, Cláudia Aparecida Pietrobon, Ricardo Marcio Garcia Rocha, Luciana Lilian Louzada Martini, Luciano Grüdtner Buratto, Maysa Luchesi Cera

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Article in CoDAS, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Nathani Cristine do Carmo RamosPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências do Comportamento, Universidade de Brasília - UnB - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8625-4057
Cláudia Aparecida PietrobonPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências do Comportamento, Universidade de Brasília - UnB - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2967-9857
Ricardo Marcio Garcia RochaPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências do Comportamento, Universidade de Brasília - UnB - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-2215
Luciana Lilian Louzada MartiniSecretaria de Saúde do Distrito Federal - SES/DF - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4160-4826
Luciano Grüdtner BurattoPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências do Comportamento, Universidade de Brasília - UnB - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7003-7824
Maysa Luchesi CeraFaculdade de Ceilândia, Universidade de Brasília - UnB - Brasília (DF), Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0956-6874

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the case report of a 61-year-old male participant with chronic conduction aphasia and deep agraphia after ischemic stroke who received training on writing under dictation associated with transcranial direct current stimulation. The treatment consisted of five 50-minute dictation sessions with the application of 2 mA of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation for 20 minutes over the left occipitotemporal cortex. The participant improved his written production of pseudowords and regular low-frequency words, via the phonological route, in addition to a small improvement in the production of irregular words, via the lexical route. After training, there was also a small improvement in writing for untrained stimuli, suggesting generalization. In the assessment carried out 5 months after the end of the treatment, the benefit was maintained for stimuli processed via the phonological route. The results are promising given the severity and chronicity of the case and suggest that transcranial direct current stimulation associated with writing therapy represents a possible clinical alternative for patients with deep agraphia.

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AgraphiaAphasiaStrokeTranscranial Direct Current StimulationHumansMaleMiddle AgedWriting

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PMID35137891
PMCPMC9886107

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