Clinical trials: Brain Plasticity
Stroke
Power Training Post-stroke
Hemiparesis, strictly defined as (muscular) weakness affecting one side of the body, is seen in three-quarters of individuals following stroke.
- Trial name
- NCT01970592
- Testing
- POWER training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Healthy
Brain Power: Resistance Training and Cognitive Function
Primary Objectives: 1. To ascertain whether a 12-month, twice-weekly or once-weekly resistance training (RT) program will significantly improve executive function in community-dwelling women aged 65 to 75 years old compared with…
- Trial name
- NCT00426881
- Testing
- Exercise Training
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 155 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Weight Loss, Wait-List Control
Neurotrophic Indicators of Cognition, Executive Skills, Plasticity, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are repeatedly shown to predict negative biopsychosocial health outcomes, including obesity.
- Trial name
- NICE SPACES (NCT04076722)
- Testing
- Stress reactivity stimuli
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oklahoma State University
Central Cord Syndrome
The Natural History of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Using fMRI, MRS and DTI
Traumatic spinal cord injury is a common injury to the spine and can lead to a clinical syndrome called central cord syndrome (CCS).
- Trial name
- NCT00790361
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Electromagnetic Fields, Neuronal Plasticity
Neuromodulation With Low Frequency-Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields
Non-depolarizing magnetic fields, like Low Frequency-Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (LF-PEMFs) have shown the ability to modulate living structures, principally by influencing synaptic activity and ion channels on cellular…
- Conditions
- Electromagnetic Fields, Neuronal Plasticity, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Trial name
- NCT03537469
- Testing
- CTU Mega 20 real device
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia
Dystonia
Cerebellum and Cortical Plasticity: the Case of Dystonia
Purpose Objective : Sensorimotor adaptation allows the modification of the motor command taking into account the errors detected during execution of prior movements. It involves a large cortico-subcortical network.
- Trial name
- CERDYS (NCT01272154)
- Testing
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Parkinson, Parkinson Disease
Neuroplasticity in Parkinson's Disease
The purpose of this project is to increase our understanding of the early state and temporal evolution of neuroplastic changes in the cortex and subthalamic nucleus (STN) of people with PD, and the relationship of these changes…
- Trial name
- NCT05286736
- Testing
- Neuroimaging, Quantitative assessments
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Stroke, Healthy
Motor Learning in Stroke Patients and Healthy Volunteers
This study will try to elucidate learning processes associated with motor training in the weak arm of stroke patients compared with healthy controls.
- Trial name
- NCT00021710
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 78 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Parkinson Disease
The Learning Effects of Attentional Strategy on Dual-task Walking in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: Behavioral Performance and Neural Plasticity
[year1] 1. To compare the effects of dual-task training with two different task priority instruction in people with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls on dual-task weight shifting performances. 2.
- Trial name
- NCT03895125
- Testing
- [year1] dual-task training with task priority strategy, [year2-3] dual-task training with internal and external focus
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Brain Injuries
D-aspartate and Therapeutic Exercise
An important mechanism responsible for clinical recovery after neurological damage of different types is synaptic plasticity. Nervous tissue can enhance or de-energize inter-neuronal transmission at synaptic level in a lasting…
- Trial name
- DAsp&TerapEx (NCT03228524)
- Testing
- D-Aspartate, Therapeutic exercise
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Brain Plasticity Following Aerobic Exercise in Patient With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Neuroimaging Study
The proposed study aims to explore brain mechanisms mediating the cognitive benefits of aerobic exercise in patients with mild cognitive impairment- a prodromal stage of Alzheimer disease.
- Trial name
- NCT02114580
- Testing
- physical training
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Cortical Excitability, Brain Stimulation
Neuroplastic Alterations of the Motor Cortex by Caffeine
Caffeine is a psychostimulant drug. It acts as a competitive antagonist at adenosine receptors, which modulate cortical excitability as well.
- Conditions
- Cortical Excitability, Brain Stimulation, Caffeine
- Trial name
- NCT04011670
- Testing
- 200 mg caffeine tablet, Non-active tablet
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Medical Center Goettingen
Brain Aging
Synaptic Plasticity Imaging With Diffusion MRI
Diffusion MRI employed in functional imaging has the potential to probe directly brain activation instead of blood changes like the BOLD technique.
- Trial name
- NCT01686516
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Movement Disorders, Parkinson Disease
Non-invasive Assessment of Synaptic Plasticity
The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying Movement Disorders, including Parkinson's disease, have been related to altered synaptic plasticity affecting several structures of the central nervous system.
- Trial name
- NEUROPLAST (NCT05353517)
- Testing
- Device: focal muscle vibration and theta burst stimulation
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
Dravet Syndrome (DS)
Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration, Synaptic Plasticity and Neuroinflammation in Dravet Syndrome
Dravet syndrome (DS) is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, usually caused by de novo pathogenic SCN1A variants, characterized by early-onset prolonged febrile seizures, subsequent drug-resistant polymorphic epilepsy…
- Trial name
- TEMBO-DS (NCT07801404)
- Where
- 9 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Healthy, Cognition
Reliability of Standardized IQ Testing Under Modafinil, Racetam-Class Compounds, Sleep Restriction and Daily Activity
This study examined whether standardized IQ test scores in healthy adults aged 18-35 are stable measures of cognitive ability and evaluated whether standardized cognitive-test performance and response-initiation measures vary…
- Conditions
- Healthy, Cognition, Sleep Deprivation
- Trial name
- NCT07852130
- Testing
- Modafinil, Oxiracetam, Pramiracetam
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdulraheem Mohamed Gouda
Stroke, Blindness
Functional Neuroimaging of Cortical Plasticity in the Human Visual System
The study's objective is to measure changes in human visual cortex organization that may arise as a result of injury to the visual pathways.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Blindness, Vision
- Trial name
- NCT01062672
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Germany
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Corticospinal Plasticity, Neuromuscular Plasticity
Study of the Reaction of the Brain to Various Stimulations
Physical activity is considered a therapeutic strategy in its own right in a vast majority of disabling chronic disorders. It leads to an increase in physical and probably cognitive capacity, thanks to its effects on both…
- Trial name
- NCT03334526
- Testing
- physical training, mental training, electrical stimulation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 174 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Brain Function, Cerebral Palsy
7T Anatomo-functional Characterization of Structures in the Action Observation Network
The goal of this study is to explore the anatomical-functional characteristics of the AON circuit (with particular interest for subcortical areas and the cerebellum), and the cortico-subcortical connectivity of the nodes of the…
- Trial name
- 7T-ATHENA (NCT06826287)
- Testing
- 7T MR exam, clinical assessment
- Where
- 2 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
Cognitive Change
Brain Exercises for Synaptic Plasticity
The BEST study will investigate the feasibility of cognitive interventions in a randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. The investigators will recruit 45 cognitively normal subjects and engage them in one of three cohorts…
- Trial name
- BEST (NCT03058055)
- Testing
- Origami, Reading
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kentucky