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Clinical Trial
. 2007 Jun;118(6):1417-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.02.026. Epub 2007 Apr 23.

No effect of DC brain polarization on verbal fluency in patients with advanced frontotemporal dementia

Edward D Huey, John C Probasco, Jorge Moll, Jonathan Stocking, Myoung-Hwan Ko, Jordan Grafman, Eric M Wassermann
Clinical Trial

No effect of DC brain polarization on verbal fluency in patients with advanced frontotemporal dementia

Edward D Huey et al. Clin Neurophysiol. 2007 Jun.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Difference in letter-cued verbal fluencies before and after sham and actual treatment. Bars represent the 90th and 10th, and boxes the 75th and 25th, percentiles. Center line is the median.
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