Research Article

The Effectiveness of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Paradigms as Treatment Options for Recovery of Language Deficits in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia

Table 5

Short-term (one day posttreatment) and long-term (two months posttreatment) effects of cTBS on narration outcomes (i.e., functional communication) for participant 3.

CategoryParticipant 3
Lexical selectionPre-TMS 1Pre-TMS 2BaselinePost-TMSFollow-up

Closed class212221.502533
Nouns171918.002129
Adjectives423.0015
Prepositions555.0077
Adverbs322.5002
Pronouns687.0048
Verbs191919.001923
Sentence productivity
MLU5.366.425.896.425.35
Elaboration index2.312.922.612.672.25
Embedding index0.360.580.470.580.15
Discourse productivity
Narrative words757776.0077107
Grammatical accuracy
Prop of S with V131212.501220
Prop of U w/o V100.5000
Prop of single word U000.0000
Prop of well-formed U0.380.420.400.750.60
AUX complexity index1.071.001.041.171.05
Error types
Phonological262525.502128
Morphosyntactic322.5045
Semantic010.5000
Lexical402.0003
Neologisms444.0000
Circumlocution000.0002
Phonological %0.350.320.340.270.26
Morphosyntactic %0.040.030.030.050.05
Semantic %0.000.010.010.000.00
Lexical %0.050.000.030.000.03
Neologisms %0.050.050.050.000.00
Circumlocution %0.000.000.000.000.02
All errors %0.490.420.450.320.36

Key: prop: proportion; s: sentences; V: verbs; U: utterances; w/o: without.