Clinical trials: Discrimination, Perceived
Healthy Volunteer
Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) on Somatosensory Perception
Background: Different parts of the brain are involved in feeling touch. Researchers want to study whether repetitive magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the sensory cortex affects how sensation feels.
- Trial name
- NCT02119637
- Testing
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), MRI
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Racism, Bias, Racial
Patient Perceptions of Physician Education and Quality by Race
Research has documented positive effects of doctor-patient race concordance, suggesting that increasing diversity among healthcare professionals may play an important role in addressing well-documented racial health disparities…
- Trial name
- NCT04940234
- Testing
- Exposure to a Photo
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard University
Major Depression
Assessment of Hedonic and Motivational States in Major Depression ( MOODDIS)
Major depression is a frequent psychiatric disorder with an estimated lifetime prevalence of 16-17% in the general population. Although its pathophysiology is not completely understood, a large body of literature pleads for a…
- Trial name
- MOODDIS (NCT03060967)
- Testing
- Computer-based tasks
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Neck Pain, Posterior, Pain, Acute
Perceptual Distortions in Acute Neck Pain
Research has shown that chronic pain is related to variety of perceptual distortions. Little is known on how acute pain experience influences perception, especially precision of touch.
- Trial name
- NCT03495076
- Testing
- Saline injection
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice
Circadian Rhythm, Time Perception
Circadian Timing and Time Perception in Healthy Adults
This study examines how a person's natural daily rhythm ("chronotype") affects the way time is experienced and judged. Healthy Danish-speaking adults (23-45 years) who are clearly morning-type or evening-type will complete two…
- Trial name
- ChronoTime (NCT07292597)
- Testing
- Session timing relative to chronotype
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Self-perceptions of Aging, Physical Activity
Reframing Expectations About Aging - Physical Activity and Inclusive Reappraisal
The goal of this clinical trial is to promote positive views on aging and walking in Spanish partners aged 65 years and over. The trial will comprise three arms.
- Trial name
- RE-PAIR (NCT07113860)
- Testing
- Views on Aging Intervention, Projecte Moviment
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 342 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Barcelona
Stroke
Electrotactile Frequency, Amplitude, and Temporal Gap Discrimination in Young Adults, Older Adults, and Stroke Survivors
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare sensory discrimination ability for electrotactile stimulation among young adults, older adults, and patients with stroke.
- Trial name
- ESD-NR (NCT07656675)
- Testing
- Electrotactile Sensory Discrimination Tasks
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sungkyunkwan University
Perceived Discrimination, RNA
Social Experiences and Demographic Factors in the Regulation of Immune Cells
Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases are a health burden for approximately seven percent of the population of Western nations. Preliminary data suggest variations in ethnic identity and/or geography influence discrimination…
- Conditions
- Perceived Discrimination, RNA, Inflammatory Response
- Trial name
- NCT06519487
- Testing
- Cyberball
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 480 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Morgan State University
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Diseases
Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the emotional perception in people with ALS disease compared to people with other neuromuscular disease and healthy controls.
- Conditions
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Diseases, ALS, Motor Neuron Disease
- Trial name
- NCT06566651
- Testing
- Emotion Discrimination Task (EDT)
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Hearing, Healthy
Understanding Speech in Background Noise
The goal of this clinical trial is to establish how speech understanding is affected by background noise in people with normal hearing.
- Conditions
- Hearing, Healthy, Speech Perception
- Trial name
- NCT07822802
- Testing
- Speech filtering, Speech with background noise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
PC-Based Rehabilitation of Auditory Function
Many older subjects experience difficulty in understanding speech in noisy environments. Part of this problem is related to changes that occur in the ear with age and compromise the hearing of high-pitched sounds.
- Trial name
- CINT (NCT00724347)
- Testing
- Consonant Identification Training
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Gait Disorder, Sensorimotor
Idiopathic Toe-Walking Position Sensation
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of plantar two-point discrimination on hip-knee-ankle position sense in children with toe walking.The main questions it aims to answer are: Are two-point discrimination and light…
- Trial name
- NCT05692791
- Testing
- Two-point Discrimination Test, Semmes-Weinstein monofilament test
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 94 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kirsehir Ahi Evran Universitesi
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Direct Discrimination of Quantum States by the Human Eye
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is a debilitating eye disease that causes a loss of central vision. The prevalence of AMD increases exponentially with age and causes a significant impact through both medical expenses and…
- Trial name
- NCT05913063
- Testing
- Structured Light Imaging Microscopy
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Eye and Vision Research
Chronotype, Circadian Rhythm
Chronotype Alignment and Time Perception
People differ in chronotype - whether they function best in the morning ("larks") or the evening ("owls"). This study asks whether the match or mismatch between a person's chronotype and the time of day at which they are tested…
- Conditions
- Chronotype, Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, Time Perception
- Trial name
- NCT07677111
- Testing
- Morning test session (about 08:00), Evening test session (about 22:00)
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mouth Breathing
The Influence of Breathing in Writing
Purpose: To examine whether nasal breathing influences the perception of sound causing trade between hard and soft consonants in the writing of children in school age and the incidence of trade.
- Trial name
- NCT02437877
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Campinas, Brazil