International Clinical Trial: The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on improving cough disorder after acute ischemic stroke and its brain network mechanism

Geneva, May 4 -- International Clinical Trials Registry received information related to the study (ChiCTR2600123089) titled 'The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on improving cough disorder after acute ischemic stroke and its brain network mechanism' on April 21.

Study Type: Interventional study

Study Design: Parallel

Primary Sponsor: Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University

Condition: Stroke

Intervention: Active tDCS group:On the basis of conventional rehabilitation, the subjects receive anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the right primary somatosensory cortex (RS1). The stimulation current intensity is set to 2.0 mA for 20 minutes per session, for a total of 5 consecutive s...