Clinical trials: Language
Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Clinical Feasibility of Speech Phenotyping for Remote Assessment of Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Disorders
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of eliciting continuous narrative speech in different neurodegenerative and psychiatric indications, using remote, self-administered speech tasks, as measured by…
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Dementia, Vascular
- Trial name
- RHAPSODY (NCT04939818)
- Where
- 2 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 172 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Novoic Limited
Typical Development, Typically Developing Children Ages 3 to 6
Assessment of Language Comprehension and Learning in Children Attending Child Psychiatry Services (TICOALA-SOINS)
Language is central to children's cognitive, emotional, and social development, and language difficulties are a frequent reason for consultation in child psychiatry, often co-occurring with psychiatric disorders.
- Conditions
- Typical Development, Typically Developing Children Ages 3 to 6, Typical Preschoolers Who Can Not Zipper, Children
- Trial name
- TICOALA-SOINS (NCT07283458)
- Testing
- TICOALA
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Stroke, Aphasia
Language Processing and TMS
This study will examine the effect of TMS on people with stroke and aphasia as well as healthy individuals.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Aphasia, Language
- Trial name
- NCT05425615
- Testing
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 135 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Pregnancy
N-3 Fatty Acid Requirements for Human Development
Polyunsaturated fatty acids known as n-3 fatty acids are essential dietary nutrients for humans, and are known to be important to reducing the risk of certain diseases, particularly those related to neural system, cardiovascular…
- Trial name
- NCT00620672
- Testing
- omega 3 fatty acids, vegetable oil
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 270 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Caregiver Burden of People With Dementia
Demonstrating the Efficacy of a Spanish-Language Program for Latino Dementia Caregivers
The investigators will test the efficacy of Unidos en el Cuidado® (United in Caring, herein Unidos), a 3-session, culturally-adapted, group psychoeducational and skill-building intervention for 226 Spanish-speaking family…
- Trial name
- NCT06747637
- Testing
- Skill-building classes, Wait list control group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 225 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Cancer, Shared Decision Making
Use of and Attitudes Towards Large Language Models for Health Information Among People With Cancer, the Public, and Health-care Professionals
This cross-sectional survey examined how people with cancer, the general public and health-care professionals use large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT for health information, what they expect from them, how comfortable…
- Conditions
- Cancer, Shared Decision Making, Artificial Intelligence
- Trial name
- NCT07526441
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 6,632 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Technical University of Munich
Reading Disability
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation to Enhance Reading Comprehension Ability in Adults
The goal of this project is to address the urgent need for effective, scalable adult literacy interventions by integrating breakthroughs in two separate fields: 1.) the brain network science of resilience to reading disorders and…
- Trial name
- NCT05523505
- Testing
- RLN real non-invasive brain stimulation intervention, RLN and CCN real non-invasive brain stimulation intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Dependence
Smoking-cessation: A Spanish-Language Clinical Trial
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a series of culturally relevant and appropriate booklets in Spanish, designed to assist Hispanic smokers in quitting smoking and remaining smoke-free.
- Trial name
- NCT02611076
- Testing
- Stop Smoking for Good Intervention in Spanish (SS-SP), Usual care (UC)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
AVM - Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, Language
Mechanism of Aphasia and Recovery of Language After the Injury of Geschwind's Territory: a Study Based on the Brain Network Analysis
At present, functional imaging studies have suggested that the Geschwind's territory (the inferior parietal lobe) is an important language area. It is the hub for semantics and phonetic language processing.
- Trial name
- NCT04295980
- Testing
- Surgical removal of the BAVMs
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Healthy, Speech Disorders
Development of Normative Ultrasound Databases of Tongue Surface Configuration
Our past ultrasound research has indicated a need for baseline normative tongue data against which to compare our disordered speech populations.
- Trial name
- NCT00001218
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Child Development, Child Behavior
Achieving Sustained Early Child Development Impacts at Scale: A Test in Kenya
An estimated 43% of children under age 5 in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience compromised development due to poverty, poor nutrition, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation.
- Conditions
- Child Development, Child Behavior, Language, Child
- Trial name
- NCT06140017
- Testing
- Msingi Bora responsive parenting and family wellbeing program
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Dyslexia
Dyslexics' Visual Attention Field
dyslexia is often considered like a phonological deficit but some researches show that a visual attention (V-A) deficit can occur in dyslexia.
- Trial name
- NCT03285789
- Testing
- Passing tests in dyslexics with reduced eva, Passing tests in controls
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 1,460 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder
Milieu Teaching-AV: Adaptation of Milieu Teaching That Encourages Looking to the Mouth
This project will look at Milieu Teaching (i.e., a language intervention) that encourages looking to audiovisual speech cues (Milieu Teaching-AV) for infants with autistic older siblings (Baby Sibs), who are highly likely be…
- Conditions
- Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism, Susceptibility to, 6
- Trial name
- MilieuTeach-AV (NCT07494513)
- Testing
- Milieu Teaching-AV, Milieu Teaching-NoAV
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Physical Inactivity, Eating Behavior
Health Behaviour Change in Brazilians
Chronic diseases are the leading health problem in Brazil and Canada. Such diseases share common risk factors in common, such as physical inactivity, poor diet, and smoking.
- Conditions
- Physical Inactivity, Eating Behavior, Smoking
- Trial name
- NCT05460897
- Testing
- Health behaviour change
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 124 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
HPV Vaccination Intent
Conversations With AI Chatbots Increase Short-Term Vaccine Intentions But Do Not Outperform Standard Public Health Messaging
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether short conversations with large language model (LLM) chatbots can persuade vaccine-hesitant parents to vaccinate their children against human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Trial name
- NCT07132125
- Testing
- Default-style LLM chatbot, Conversational-style LLM chatbot, Public health informational materials
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 930 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Agraphia
Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners
The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.
- Trial name
- NCT05795738
- Testing
- Chinese character-based visuomotor training program, traditional visuomotor training program
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson Disease
A Systematic Investigation of Phonetic Complexity Effects on Articulatory Motor Performance in Progressive Dysarthria
The goal is to improve the fundamental knowledge about articulatory motor performance in people with Lou Gehrig's disease (also known as ALS) and Parkinson's disease (PD), in order to develop more sensitive assessments for…
- Trial name
- NCT03613038
- Testing
- Phonetic complexity effects on speech motor performance
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Integrating Sex and Gender Into CPD for Depression/Diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to experience depression as nondiabetic individuals, and depression in turn increases the risk of diabetes.
- Trial name
- INCluDED (NCT03928132)
- Testing
- CPD Workshop on Depression and Diabetes
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 127 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval
Perioperative Risk Assessment
Frailty Assessment Reveals Cognitive Differences in ASA Classification: Anesthesiologists vs Large Language Models
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Classification System is widely used to assess perioperative risk, but it does not explicitly include frailty as a standardized variable.
- Trial name
- ASA-AI (NCT07399938)
- Testing
- Observational Assessment Only
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital
High School 11th Grade Students, Absence of Any Language, Hearing, Mental or Psychological Disability
The Effect of Motivational Support Program Applied to Adolescents on Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement
It was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a single-blind technique, pretest-posttest control group and repetitive measurements, in order to determine the effect of motivational support program applied to…
- Conditions
- High School 11th Grade Students, Absence of Any Language, Hearing, Mental or Psychological Disability, Turkish Speaking and Understanding, Having a PUKI Index Above 5ı
- Trial name
- NCT06004778
- Testing
- Motivational Support Program, Educational support
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa