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Trial reportBrain stimulation

Pre-frontal tDCS improves sustained attention and promotes artificial grammar learning in aphasia: An open-label study.

Ellyn A Riley, Mikaella Verblaauw, Hesham Masoud, Leonardo Bonilha

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Trial report in Brain stimulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. tDCS and Speech Therapy in Aphasia Treatment: A Multicenter Comparative Study of Efficacy.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ellyn A RileySU Aphasia Lab, Dept. of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. Electronic address: earil100@syr.edu.
Mikaella VerblaauwSU Aphasia Lab, Dept. of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Hesham MasoudDept. of Neurology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Leonardo BonilhaDept. of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Syracuse University · USMedical University of South Carolina · USSUNY Upstate Medical University · US

Funding

Techniques DevelopmentP2CHD086844 · NICHD · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI GEORGE, MARK S · 2015 to 2024
$12.7M
Improving Aphasia Outcomes through tDCS-Mediated Attention ManagementR21DC017787 · NIDCD · SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY · PI RILEY, ELLYN · 2020 to 2022
$458k
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD086844NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC017787
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AphasiaTranscranial Direct Current StimulationAttentionHumansLearningPrefrontal CortexAphasiaArtificial grammarAttentionDorsolateral prefrontal cortextDCS

Identifiers

PMID35868486
PMCPMC10021860
OpenAlexW4286252302

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Registered trials

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