Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Applied to Language Recovery in Persons With Aphasia: A Scoping Review
Aphasiology
Gobbo, M., & Marini, A. (2025).
Aphasiology, 39(5), 684-709.
<div>This scoping review explores the effects of combined treatments of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and language therapy for adult people with aphasia (PWA). This article summary does not include this review's secondary findings regarding the use of tACS in healthy controls. </div>
No funding received
From database inception to May 5, 2023
<div>Intervention studies</div>
9 (only 4 with PWA)
<div>Four studies reported emerging evidence that combined treatments of language therapy and tACS may improve language production in adults with chronic aphasia when compared to language therapy and sham stimulation. However, this finding was based on a small number of studies with reduced methodological rigor and small sample sizes. Additional limitations included poor reporting of treatment and patient characteristics and lack of research regarding the use of these treatments in people in the acute and subacute stages of recovery. Additional research is needed. </div>
