Melodic-Intonation-Therapy and Speech-Repetition-Therapy for Patients With Non-fluent Aphasia

This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)

Verified January 2015 by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Sponsor:

Collaborator:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Gottfried Schlaug, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT00903266

First received: May 15, 2009

Last updated: January 29, 2015

Last verified: January 2015

History of Changes

No Study Results Posted on ClinicalTrials.gov for this Study

About Study Results Reporting on ClinicalTrials.gov

Study Status:	This study is currently recruiting participants.
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2016
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Publications:

Schlaug G, Marchina S, Norton A. From Singing to Speaking: Why Patients with Broca's Aphasia can sing and how that may lead to recovery of expressive language functions. Music Perception 25:315-323, 2008.

Schlaug G, Marchina S, Norton A. Evidence for plasticity in white-matter tracts of patients with chronic Broca's aphasia undergoing intense intonation-based speech therapy. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul;1169:385-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04587.x.

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