Combining Language Therapy With rTMS in Aphasia

ILAT includes communicative language games played in an interactive small-group setting. Three persons with aphasia and one therapist sit around a table and have picture cards in front of them. The card sets include two items of each object or action picture. All participants take turns in making verbal requests. There will be 5 daily sessions (3 hours per session) for two weeks.

Magnetic stimulation will delivered with a figure-of-eight cooled coil of Navigated Brain Stimulation System during picture naming training. The primary targeted area is the right pars triangularis. In each session, rTMS will be applied at 1-Hz for 20 minutes, 5 daily sessions per week for four weeks.