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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

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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Figures

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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