REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (RTMS): A USEFUL TOOL ALSO FOR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM DYSLEXIA?
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2009, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
[b]SUMMARY[/b]Wanzek & Vaughn (2008) have reported that improve-ment of reading fluency depends on the amount of time in reading inten/ention. For that reason it can be assumed that brain stimulation - psychological or biological - could improve reading fluency. The purpose of our study was to verify the therapeutic effectiveness of repetitive Transcra nial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) at a Iow frequency in a subject affected by dyslexia, with particular attention to the presence of possible correlations between the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the severity of the symptomatology.
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Helmut Niederhofer
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