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Randomized, Triple-Blind, and Parallel-Controlled Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Cognitive Rehabilitation after Stroke
Published on: June 6, 2025
Theta burst stimulation improves visuo-spatial attention in a patient with traumatic brain injury
Sonia Bonnì1, Chiara Mastropasqua, Marco Bozzali
1Laboratorio di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy, s.bonni@hsantalucia.it.
Abstract:
Recent studies showed that non-invasive brain stimulation methods, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can improve the symptoms of neglect in stroke patients. Here, we adopted this approach to improve visuo-spatial deficit in a patient with traumatic brain injury (TBI) that showed important symptoms of visuo-spatial neglect. We found that continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) applied over the left posterior parietal cortex (PPC) induced a clinical improvement of cognitive disorder associated to a functional changes of fronto-parietal network as assessed by means of TMS and resting state fMRI.
