Clinical trials: Executive Function Disorder
Depression
Effectiveness of Methylphenidate in Improving Cognition and Function in Older Adults With Depression
This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of methylphenidate in improving cognition and function in older adults with depression.
- Trial name
- NCT00602290
- Testing
- Citalopram, Methylphenidate (MPH)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 181 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Gulf War Veterans Illness, Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Scalp Application of LED Therapy to Improve Thinking and Memory in Veterans With Gulf War Illness
The purpose of this study is to learn if an experimental treatment can help thinking ability, and memory in Veterans with Gulf War Veterans Illnesses (GWVI).
- Conditions
- Gulf War Veterans Illness, Neurobehavioral Manifestations, Memory Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT01782378
- Testing
- Real LED Treatment
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 96 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Parkinson's Disease
Aerobic Exercise in Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an incurable brain illness that afflicts more than one million Americans, including many aging Veterans.
- Trial name
- LTAE-PD (NCT03808675)
- Testing
- Aerobic walking, Usual care with PD specific health education
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Executive Functioning in TBI From Rehabilitation to Social Reintegration: COMPASS
Interventional, controlled clinical trial with two arms, 110 Veterans with TBI and PTSD
- Trial name
- COMPASS (NCT01816061)
- Testing
- Experimental - COMPASS, Control - COMPASS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Drug Addiction, Executive Dysfunction
Bilateral Prefrontal Modulation in Alcoholism
In this study, eligible alcoholic inpatients recruited from a specialized clinic for addiction treatment, filling inclusion criteria and not showing any exclusion criteria, were randomized to receive the repetitive (10 sessions…
- Trial name
- tDCS_ALCOHOL (NCT02091284)
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Espirito Santo
Traumatic Brain Injury, Post Concussive Symptoms
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for the Treatment of Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury
Patients with mild-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained between 3 months and 5 years ago with prolonged postconcussive symptoms will be recruited.
- Conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Post Concussive Symptoms, Depression, Executive Dysfunction
- Trial name
- NCT02613936
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Cognitive training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Neurostimulation In Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
Long-term survivors of ALL are at-risk for neurocognitive impairment, particularly in the area of executive functioning. Relatively limited research has focused on interventions for improving neurocognitive outcomes in long-term…
- Trial name
- NCT04007601
- Testing
- Active tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 127 people
- Sponsor
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Alcohol Dependence, Executive Dysfunction
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Alcoholism
Alcohol dependency is the most frequent addiction leading to a massive burden of both, patients health, and economy. Present therapeutic concepts suffer from limited efficacy, and thus new innovative therapies are needed.
- Conditions
- Alcohol Dependence, Executive Dysfunction, Abnormal Craving for Drugs
- Trial name
- NCT01330394
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- 2 sites in Brazil
- Volunteers
- 33 people
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Espirito Santo
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Concussion
Rehabilitation of Executive Functioning in Veterans With PTSD and Mild TBI
One of the most pressing concerns within the VA currently is the provision of interventions that address the cognitive as well as emotional problems faced by Veterans with concurrent mild TBI and PTSD.
- Trial name
- NCT01921179
- Testing
- GOALS (Goal-Oriented Attentional Regulation), EDU (Brain Health Education)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Integrated Brain, Body and Social Intervention for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The investigators are conducting this randomized trial to determine if IBBS (Integrated Brain, Body, and Social)intervention is an effective treatment for ADHD (attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in two culturally distinct…
- Trial name
- IBBS (NCT01542528)
- Testing
- IBBS
- Where
- 5 sites in United States, China
- Volunteers
- 117 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms
Development of a Mobile App for an Executive Functioning Intervention for Adolescents
This study develops an initial prototype of a mobile tool that will support clinician-directed behavioral/organizational skills treatment for adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with input guided from…
- Trial name
- NCT04018794
- Testing
- Behavioral/organizational skills intervention augmented with digital health application
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder
Targeting Cerebellum to Treat Psychosis: a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Study
The goal of this study is to use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate the impact of modulating cerebellar activity on time perception, executive function, and mood and psychotic symptoms in psychosis patients…
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder I
- Trial name
- NCT02642029
- Testing
- Excitatory TMS, Inhibitory TMS
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Using fMRI-guided TMS to Increase Central Executive Function in Older Adults (MCI_Sub)
This is an administrative supplement to an existing project "Using fMRI-guided TMS to increase central executive function in older adults: NCT02767323" This award allows extending our existing fMRI-TMS paradigm to patients with a…
- Trial name
- MCI_Sub (NCT04176406)
- Testing
- rTMS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Depression, Major Depressive Disorder
The Effects of Wellbutrin (Bupropion) on Residual and Cognitive Symptoms in SSRI-treated Depression
Many people with depression are treated with a serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor anti-depressant (SSRI) and feel 'better'. Although many people feel 'better', they do not feel completely 'well'.
- Conditions
- Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Unipolar Depression
- Trial name
- NCT00125957
- Testing
- Wellbutrin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
Traumatic Brain Injury
rTMS to Improve Cognitive Function in TBI
This project will study 40 Veterans identified with symptoms understood to characterize mild to moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Trial name
- rTMSTBI (NCT02152540)
- Testing
- rTMS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 33 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development