| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Objective of this study was to examine the effect of improving the attention and driving ability by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for patients with higher brain dysfunction due to stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury. Six subjects received anodal tDCS (20minutes; 2mA; in the left frontal lobe) during cognitive training for 7 days. Four subjects received sham tDCS (15 seconds; 0.2mA) during same cognitive training. TMT-B was significantly improved in anodal group compared with that of the sham group. SDMT was significantly worse in anodal group in contrast. There were some reports visual and verbal attention tasks were improved by anodal tDCS in the left prefrontal cortex, consistent with the results of TMT-B in this study. It was suggested that right frontal lobe inhibition by left anodal stimulation and right cathodal stimulation induced worse in SDMT scores. In this study, tDCS lacked in a result affecting driving ability.
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