Clinical trials: Deafness
Cochlear Implants
Pitch Perception and Memory: Deficits and Training
Pitch perception and memory are central in auditory cognition, in particular for sound source segregation and recognition, speech prosody and music processing.
- Trial name
- Pitch_Train (NCT03707691)
- Testing
- Listening tests. Pitch training protocol, visuo-spatial training protocol, EEG/MEG/MRI recordings.
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 960 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Neuropsychological Tests, Memory
Adaptation and Normalization of a Verbal Episodic Memory Test in French Sign Language
To date, neuropsychological assessment of deaf signing persons is complicated by a lack of resources, especially the absence of tools available in French Sign Language (LSF).
- Conditions
- Neuropsychological Tests, Memory, Alzheimer Disease, Deafness
- Trial name
- RL-RI-LSF (NCT06902753)
- Testing
- Questionnaire and Physical Exam
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Poitiers University Hospital
Congenital Hearing Loss, Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Alpha-Tectorin, Interleukin-10 and Thiol-Disulfide Homeostasis in Children With Congenital Hearing Loss
Congenital hearing loss is one of the most common sensory disorders of childhood, and the structural, immunologic and oxidative mechanisms involved in its development are incompletely understood.
- Trial name
- NCT07860580
- Testing
- Blood sample collection
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harran University
Deafness
Hearing Program in Primary Care
During a primary care visit, investigators will screen and identify participants with hearing loss and then randomize to a) counseling on accessible assistive listening devices or b) referral to traditional audiology care pathway…
- Trial name
- NCT05943509
- Testing
- Alternative rehabilitation strategies, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Deafness
Localization and Mismatch Negativity
This descriptive and observational research project aims to characterize MMN as a neuronal marker of localization deficit in single-sided deafened subjects and subjects with bilateral profound deafness treated by a cochlear…
- Trial name
- MMNLocA (NCT03632551)
- Testing
- Specific binaural hearing evaluations
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
Cognitive Processing of Natural Sequences in Humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The goal of this study is to identify electrical patterns in the cortex that enable the generation of predictions in natural auditory sequences such as speech and music.
- Trial name
- SEQUOIA (NCT07740070)
- Volunteers
- 700 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Single Sided Deafness, Unilateral Deafness
Cochlear Implants in Young Children With SSD
The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the safety and effectiveness of cochlear implantation in infants and toddlers with single-sided deafness.
- Conditions
- Single Sided Deafness, Unilateral Deafness, Hearing Loss, Unilateral, Hearing Loss
- Trial name
- Little SSD (NCT05775367)
- Testing
- Cochlear Implant
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Temporary Auditory Threshold Shift
Otoprotection With SPI-1005 for Prevention of Temporary Auditory Threshold Shift
Exposure to loud sounds can cause hearing loss. The purpose of this research study is to evaluate potential prevention of temporary changes in hearing that may occur after listening to music through an iPod or personal music…
- Trial name
- NCT01444846
- Testing
- SPI-1005 Low dose, SPI-1005 Middle dose, SPI-1005 High dose
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sound Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
Hearing Loss, Motivation
Motivational Interviewing in Hearing Aid Users
Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic disabilities in the older adult population and affects their quality of life. Hearing aid use can improve one's quality of life by increasing a person's ability to detect…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Motivation, Hearing Disability, Hearing Disorders and Deafness
- Trial name
- MI-HAT (NCT04673565)
- Testing
- Motivational interviewing
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Profound Hearing Impairment
Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Brain Reorganisation of the Central Auditory Cortex in Asymetrical Profound Deaf Patient With a Cochlear Implantation.
Our main objective is to study how the extent of reorganization of the central auditory system is related to the binaural integration in cochlear implanted subjects with asymmetric hearing loss.
- Trial name
- UniTEP (NCT03117413)
- Testing
- Positron emission tomography scan
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Cancer, Deafness
Using Community Health Navigators to Advance Cancer Screening Adherence
Intervention to promote cancer screenings among deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing participants who have not received screening within the recommended guideline.
- Trial name
- NCT06492993
- Testing
- Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 184 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gallaudet University
Hearing Loss, Deafness
Auditory-Cognitive Training to Optimize Outcomes for Older CI Users
The proposed study will investigate whether an auditory brain training program can improve cochlear implant (CI) outcomes in older post-lingually deafened CI users.
- Trial name
- ARCog (NCT05176561)
- Testing
- Auditory-Cognitive Training, Non-auditory Cognitive Training
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gallaudet University
Deafness, Bilateral
Study of the Role of Top-down Processes in Neuronal Reorganization and Recovery From Sensory Loss: an Exploratory Behavioral and Electroencephalographic Study in Cochlear-supported Deaf Patients
This study posits that central top-down processes (attention, inhibition), marked by alpha oscillations in EEG, play a key role.
- Trial name
- REASCENT (NCT07500909)
- Testing
- neurophysiological assessment, Cognitive, behavioral and quality of life assessment
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Asymmetric Hearing Loss, Single-sided Deafness
Cochlear Implantation in Children With Asymmetric Hearing Loss or Single-Sided Deafness Clinical Trial
This is a two-phase study that compares performance growth pre-implant with current hearing aid (HA) technology versus post-implant with a cochlear implant (CI) in children with either asymmetric hearing loss (AHL) or…
- Conditions
- Asymmetric Hearing Loss, Single-sided Deafness, Unilateral Deafness
- Trial name
- NCT04793412
- Testing
- Cochlear Implant
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Deafness
Novel Coding Strategies for Children With Cochlear Implants
The purpose of this study is to understand performance with a cochlear implant. The long-term goals of this research are to improve sound perception with cochlear implants and to better understand the functioning of the auditory…
- Trial name
- NCT05203302
- Testing
- Single-Electrode Pulse Train, Modulation Detection Threshold (MDT) and Gap Detection Tasks, Sound coding strategy.
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 190 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
ListenFuture-Listening for Their Future: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents
ListenFuture, a nation-wide multidisciplinary project, brings new knowledge on complex associations between listening, cognition, language, literacy, and psychosocial wellbeing in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adolescents.
- Trial name
- ListenFuture (NCT07416292)
- Where
- 7 sites in Finland
- Volunteers
- 256 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Heikki Löppönen
Mitochondrial Disorders, Mitochondrial Genetic Disorders
North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium Patient Registry and Biorepository (NAMDC)
The North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC) maintains a patient contact registry and tissue biorepository for patients with mitochondrial disorders.
- Conditions
- Mitochondrial Disorders, Mitochondrial Genetic Disorders, Mitochondrial Diseases, Disorder of Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complexes
- Trial name
- NAMDC (NCT01694940)
- Where
- 17 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Congenital Deafness
Neuroanatomy of Reading in Congenital Deafness.
The aim of the research is to investigate phonological processing in deafness and to examine its influence on the neuroanatomy of reading.The basic hypothesis is that insofar as the ability to read is closely related to the…
- Trial name
- NCT00400413
- Testing
- fMRI
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Deafness
Cerebral Activation and Bilateral Stimulation by Cochlear Implantation in Bilateral Deaf Adults
The primary objective to this study is to describe bilateral auditory information processing in profoundly deaf patients with bilateral cochlear implants compared with normal hearing patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02904187
- Testing
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Deafness
Perceptual Consequences of Cochlear Implant Electrode-neuron Interfaces
Despite the success of cochlear implants, devices surgically placed in the inner ears of patients with severe hearing loss, there remains substantial variability in the overall speech perception outcomes for the children and…
- Trial name
- NCT05867173
- Testing
- Experimental Speech Processing Strategy
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary