The Effect of tDCS on Motor Learning and Neural Network in Stroke Patients

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation; Behavioral: Motor learning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04903457

2021-04-075

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) simulation on motor learning to stroke patients compared to sham stimulation

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral stroke including basal ganglia lesion patients
• Chronic patients over 6 months after onset
• Patients with the movement of fingers

Exclusion criteria

• History of psychiatric disease
• Significant other neurological diseases except for stroke
• Difficult to perform this experiment
• Patients who are deemed difficult to participate in this research by the investigator
• Patients with metal implants and medical devices
• History of epilepsy
• Pregnancy
• Skin defect at the site of electrode attachment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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21 participants in 2 patient groups

Real stimulation before motor learning training

Experimental group

Description:

Patients receive five sessions of tDCS stimulation over C3 (patient with left-sided lesion) or C4 (patient with right-sided lesion) based on 10-20 system immediately before sequential finger tapping task.

Treatment:

Device: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Behavioral: Motor learning

Sham stimulation before motor learning training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients receive five sessions of sham stimulation over C3 (patient with left-sided lesion) or C4 (patient with right-sided lesion) based on 10-20 system immediately before sequential finger tapping task.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motor learning