Clinical trials: Volunteer
Blindness
Enhanced Tactile Memory in the Blind
This study will determine if the brain regions in blind people that would normally be involved in vision are used instead to remember touch.
- Trial name
- NCT00076700
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Multiple Sclerosis
The Effect of Sildenafil Citrate (Viagra® (Registered Trademark)) on Brain Blood Flow in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
This study will determine whether sildenafil citrate, commonly known as Viagra, can cause increased blood flow to the brain in a wide range of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, including women.
- Trial name
- NCT00094068
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Medulloblastoma
Social Cognition and Brain Integrity in Survivors of Pediatric Medulloblastoma
Survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma (MB) are at-risk for neurocognitive and social deficits, including specific skills such as facial affect recognition which is the ability to recognize the emotional expressions of another…
- Trial name
- NCT02747576
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 137 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Healthy, Child Development
Event Related Potentials in Infants and Adults
This study will explore the development of visual perception and the brain activity that underlies it. It will examine electrical activity in the brain while people are processing characteristics of the visual environment, and…
- Trial name
- NCT00088712
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 440 people
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Cerebellar Disease, Dementia
Effects of Brain Stimulation on Learning and Reasoning
Imaging studies of the brain have revealed the different areas involved in the processes of learning and reasoning. However, the specific role these regions play in these processes, or if stimulating these areas can improve these…
- Conditions
- Cerebellar Disease, Dementia, Healthy, Parkinson's Disease
- Trial name
- NCT00001776
- Testing
- Cadwell Rapid Rate Magnetic Stimulator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 122 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Healthy
Brain Use of Sensory Information to Generate Movement
This study will use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate functions of brain regions that may use information from sensory organs, such as the eyes or ears, to generate movements.
- Trial name
- NCT00055289
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Contraception, Pregnancy Related
Project for Reproductive Equity Through Volunteers and Entrepreneurship, Networks and Technology
The PREVENT Project is a multifaceted, adolescent friendly, culturally competent program aimed to address the issues surrounding unplanned pregnancies and lack of access and uptake of contraceptive services among adolescent…
- Conditions
- Contraception, Pregnancy Related, Reproductive Behavior
- Trial name
- PREVENT (NCT03995043)
- Testing
- Education, Personal Support, Access to contraception
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 198 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr. Karen Yeates
Healthy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Study Imagination of Movement
This study will use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to examine the relationship between cognitive processing and motor control by determining whether a part of the brain called the premotor cortex is essential to…
- Trial name
- NCT00046215
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Healthy Volunteers
Determination of Forces Used in Palpatory Diagnosis
In this study, we are experimentally investigating the assessment of forces used by skilled clinicians and beginning practitioners in palpatory techniques.
- Trial name
- NCT00781144
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Australia
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nova Southeastern University
Tropical Spastic Paraparesis
MRI Brain Studies in Patients With HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis
This study will use three different magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to study HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/STP)-a disease of slowly progressive weakness in the legs.
- Trial name
- NCT00034723
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Healthy Volunteers
Development of Hardware and Software for Pulmonary Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Inhaled Tracer Gases
This is a single centre study. The overarching hypothesis of this study is that MRI with inhaled tracer gases can provide high quality images of lung function to complement conventional 1H MRI.
- Trial name
- NCT04726618
- Testing
- Hyperpolarized 129-xenon gas and Perfluoropropane gas
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Healthy Volunteer
Brain Bases of Natural Scenes's Visual Perception of Natural Scenes
Using the available data from psychophysics, cellular electrophysiology and functionnal neuroanatomy of visual pathway, current models of visual recognition suppose that the perception of scenes start with a parallel extraction…
- Trial name
- SCENES (NCT02840305)
- Testing
- Evaluation of visual function, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 141 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Developmental Disabilities
Family Networks (FaNs) for Children With Developmental Disorders and Delays
Over 6% of children in Pakistan suffer from a developmental disorder (intellectual disability or Autistic spectrum disorder) and most receive no intervention.In an earlier proof of concept study, the investigators integrated…
- Trial name
- FaNs (NCT02792894)
- Testing
- Family networks program
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 540 people
- Sponsor
- Human Development Research Foundation, Pakistan
Extraocular Retinoblastoma, Intraocular Retinoblastoma
Genetic Mutations and Environmental Exposure in Young Patients With Retinoblastoma and in Their Parents and Young Healthy Unrelated Volunteers
This laboratory study is looking at genetic mutations and environmental exposure in young patients with retinoblastoma and in their parents and young healthy unrelated volunteers.
- Conditions
- Extraocular Retinoblastoma, Intraocular Retinoblastoma, Recurrent Retinoblastoma
- Trial name
- NCT00690469
- Testing
- Laboratory Biomarker Analysis, Questionnaire Administration
- Where
- 52 sites in United States, Canada and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 234 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Oncology Group
Aggressive Behavior
Brain Changes in Adolescents While Imagining and Observing Aggressive Behavior
This study will use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine what happens in the brains of adolescents when they are exposed to violent media and how imagining aggressive behavior affects brain function.
- Trial name
- NCT00267891
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
EXhaled Hydrogen Peroxide As a Marker of Lung diseasE (EXHALE) Pilot Study.
This Pilot study evaluates the use of a new device called Inflammacheck and whether it can consistently measure hydrogen peroxide levels in exhaled breath condensate.
- Trial name
- EXHALE Pilot (NCT03055923)
- Testing
- The Inflammacheck Device
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 149 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Dysautonomia in Children With Type 1 Diabetes, Healthy Volunteer
Dysautonomia in Children With Type 1 Diabetes
Some physiological factors, such as physical activity, or pathological factors, such as sepsis or diabetes, are known to modulate the overall autonomic activity and the individual's intrinsic capacity to regulate their…
- Trial name
- DYSDIAB (NCT07455994)
- Testing
- Neurocoach® and Sudoscan®
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Resilience, Psychological
Combined Intervention of Long-term Letter Mentoring and Centralized Summer Camp by University Student Volunteers for Disadvantaged Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a combined intervention of summer camp and letter-writing support works to improve psychological resilience in disadvantaged adolescents in Liangshan, Sichuan.
- Trial name
- LWCSC (NCT07087886)
- Testing
- Combined Resilience Intervention
- Volunteers
- 497 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Xiaoxuan Liu
Acute Ebola Virus Disease
A Prospective, Open Label, Phase 1 Safety Study of Passive Immune Therapy During Acute Ebola Virus Disease Using Transfusion of INTERCEPT Plasma Prepared From Volunteer Donors Who Have Recovered From Ebola Virus Disease
The objective of this Phase 1 safety study is to provide access to the potential therapeutic benefit of EBOV convalescent plasma containing antibodies to EBOV.
- Trial name
- NCT02295501
- Testing
- INTERCEPT Plasma
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Cerus Corporation
Healthy Volunteer
A Single-volunteer Study of Immune Response Following OTS-412 Vaccinia Virus Systemic Injection(Self-experiment)
Following oncolytic virus (OV) administration, the host immune response is initiated immediately and evolves dynamically. However, in clinical OV therapy, it is virtually impossible to capture these immune events in real time.
- Trial name
- NCT07302945
- Testing
- OTS-412
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bionoxx Inc.