Clinical trials: Autonomic Nervous System
Type 1 Diabetes
Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure in Type 1 DM, Q5
When a patient with Type 1 diabetes exercises, he or she is more prone to low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. It is known that antecedent exercise can blunt defense responses, called counterregulatory responses to subsequent…
- Trial name
- NCT00605774
- Testing
- epinephrine
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Dementia With Lewy Bodies
In-Home Care for Patients With PSP and Related Disorders
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and related disorders (PRD) are debilitating, costly, and understudied conditions. Improving access to comprehensive, specialized, in-home patient care offers the potential to minimize the downward…
- Conditions
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Multiple System Atrophy, Corticobasal Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT03552484
- Testing
- Home Visit Program, Usual Care/Online Survey
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
Hyperhidrosis Due to Autonomic Dysregulation (Disorder)
Extended Versus Limited Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy: Its Impact on Palmar and Plantar Hyperhidrosis
Conclusions: In the context of palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis, extended thoracoscopic sympathectomy seemed to be preferred over limited thoracoscopic sympathectomy due to better overall outcomes and minimal time for hospital…
- Trial name
- NCT06219655
- Testing
- thoracoscopic sympathectomy
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mansoura University
Pulmonary Disease, Autonomic Dysfunction
Meditative Movement for COPD Symptoms in Non-Smoking Flight Attendants
This study will explore the a Qigong based exercise intervention, here referred to as Meditative Movement (MM), to ameliorate the symptoms associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its co-morbidities.
- Conditions
- Pulmonary Disease, Autonomic Dysfunction, COPD
- Trial name
- MMforFA (NCT02612389)
- Testing
- Meditative Movement taught via DVD
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 220 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Psychological Stress, Mental Fatigue
The Role of Physical Ardor in Triggering State Anattā and Psychophysiological Recovery
This study investigates how different types of aerobic exercise-specifically continuous treadmill running versus intermittent ball games-influence mental restoration in university students.
- Conditions
- Psychological Stress, Mental Fatigue, Self-Perception, Autonomic Nervous System Function
- Trial name
- SPAR (NCT07488169)
- Testing
- Continuous Aerobic Exercise (Treadmill-based), Intermittent Aerobic Exercise (Ball Games)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 671 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lincoln University College
Parkinson Disease
Safety Study to Autonomic Rehabilitation o Parkinson's Disease
Introduction: The Parkinson is one of the most common degenerative diseases of the central nervous system , mainly characterized by resting tremor , rigidity, akinesia and postural instability , also featuring the autonomic…
- Trial name
- NCT02680522
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Cardiac Autonomic Function
Respiratory dysfunction is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Air stacking is a clearance airway technique frequently used but its effects on cardiac autonomic function in…
- Trial name
- NCT01522079
- Testing
- Air stacking manuever
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
Healthy, Swimming
EFFECTS OF FOAM ROLLING ON HRV IN ELITE SWIMMERS
The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of foam rolling (FR) on recovery by examining selected time-domain and frequency-domain heart rate variability (HRV) parameters in elite swimmers following intensive interval sprint…
- Conditions
- Healthy, Swimming, Autonomic Nervous System Function, Recovery
- Trial name
- HRV-SWIMMING (NCT07641062)
- Testing
- Swimming+FoamRollingRecovery, SwimmingRecovery
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Uludag University
Hypertension
Effects of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Blood Pressure Levels in Hypertensive Individuals
This research aims to evaluate the effects of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) on blood pressure, in inspiratory muscle mechanoreflex, autonomic cardiovascular control in subjects with hypertension.
- Trial name
- NCT02275377
- Testing
- Inspiratory muscle training (IMT)
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Healthy Volunteers
A Study to Determine the Relative Bioavailability of Capsule and Tablet Formulations of GDC-0941 and the Effect of Food and Proton Pump Inhibition on GDC-0941 Tablet Pharmacokinetics in Healthy Volunteers
This is a Phase I, randomized, two-part, single-center pharmacokinetics (PK) study to assess the relative bioavailability of capsule and tablet formulations of GDC-0941 in the fasted state (Part 1) and to determine the effect of…
- Trial name
- NCT00999128
- Testing
- GDC-0941, rabeprazole
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Genentech, Inc.
Child Development
The Role of Motion in Infants' Ability to Categorize
This study is concerned with psychological and physiological development in infants. Specifically, researchers are interested in when and how babies are able to group similar objects, like animals or vehicles, into the same…
- Trial name
- NCT00362076
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 941 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Sedentary Behaviors, Physical Inactivity
Step-Up vs. Running Exercise at Matched Heart Rate Zones in Sedentary Males
This study compares the effects of two aerobic exercise methods - loaded step-up exercise and treadmill running - on cardiovascular fitness, leg strength, heart rate variability, and recovery in sedentary adult males.
- Trial name
- NCT07585617
- Testing
- Loaded Step-Up Exercise, Treadmill Running
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ankara University
Parkinson Disease
Parkinson Disease Before and After Medication and Rehabilitation Treatment
In this three-year project, our research teams are going to consecutively explore these important clinical, drug and physical rehabilitation treatment effects, noradrenergic network, autonomic dysfunction and microRNA signalling…
- Trial name
- NCT02672943
- Testing
- Rehabilitation treatment, non-rehabilitation treatment
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Multiple Sclerosis
Exercise Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
Exercise or active rehabilitation is a non-pharmacological approach increasingly used for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), in support of disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), with the aim of improving the quality of life and…
- Trial name
- RehaMS (NCT04294979)
- Testing
- Physical Therapy
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele Roma
Laser Acupuncture, Meridian
The Effect of Laser Acupuncture in Different Meridians on the Autonomic Nervous System and Its Brain Mechanisms
Traditional Chinese acupuncture has a history of several thousand years. The World Health Organization has published guidelines describing the efficacy of acupuncture in the cure or relief of 64 different symptoms and conditions…
- Conditions
- Laser Acupuncture, Meridian, Heart Rate Variability, Brain Mechanism
- Trial name
- NCT05458713
- Testing
- Laser acupuncture
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 103 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- China Medical University, Taiwan
Diabetes, Hypertension
FFA Hypertension and Inflammation in Lean and Obese Subjects
Although a large number of obese patients develop high blood pressure, the cause is unknown. The purpose of this study is to look at the effect of high fatty acids (a type of fat) in the development of high blood pressure in…
- Conditions
- Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity
- Trial name
- FFAADA (NCT00721617)
- Testing
- Intralipid 20%, Normal Saline, Oral fat load
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Healthy
The Effects of Manual Lymphatic Drainage on the Autonomic Nerve System
Forty healthy women who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. In the single-blind randomized controlled study, the participants were divided into 3 groups manual lymphatic drainage(MLD), sham MLD, and control…
- Trial name
- NCT05809726
- Testing
- Manual lymph drainage
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kutahya Health Sciences University
Type 1 Diabetes
Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure in Type 1 DM, Q4
Epinephrine is one of the important hormones in the defense of hypoglycemia. We will test the hypothesis that antecedent hypoglycemia will blunt the metabolic, neuroendocrine and cardiovascular effects of subsequent epinephrine…
- Trial name
- NCT00608816
- Testing
- epinephrine
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Gastroparesis
GI-Challenge Study for Gastroparesis Patients and Healthy Controls
Gastroparesis Patients and Healthy Controls ages 20-49 will be asked to participate in an observational study measuring vagal activity following food ingestion in order to establish parameters of autonomic nerve/vagal function in…
- Trial name
- NCT03896126
- Testing
- Observational
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Dietary Salt in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
Patients with POTS may not adequately expand their plasma volume in response to a high-sodium (Na+) diet. Mechanisms involved in the regulation of plasma volume, such as the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and renal…
- Trial name
- NCT01547117
- Testing
- Blood Volume, Total Blood Volume, Exercise Capacity Test - Bicycle
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University