Clinical trials: Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation
Schizophrenia With Auditory Hallucinations
Frequency- and Intensity-Dependent After-Effects of High-Definition Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Resting-State Electroencephalography
This study aims to investigate the after-effects of high-definition transcranial alternating current stimulation (HD-tACS) with varying parameters on resting-state brain activity in patients with schizophrenia experiencing…
- Trial name
- NCT07798804
- Testing
- high-definition transcranial alternating current stimulation(HD-tACS)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Mental Health Center
Healthy Older Adults
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for the Improvement of Episodic Memory in Healthy Older Adults
Memory complaints are a common symptom among Subjective Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer disease. Indeed, episodic memory and Alzheimer disease are highly sensitive to aging.
- Trial name
- NCT06284720
- Testing
- Gamma tACS (40 Hz) over the precuneus
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Working Memory
Modulation of Brain Oscillations Underlying Working Memory
This study will use novel transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) protocols and electroencephalography (EEG) to modulate and measure brain oscillations that underlie working memory.
- Trial name
- NCT05923606
- Testing
- Active tACS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Application of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Modulation of Sleep and Cognitive Performance
Loss of slow wave sleep (SWS) is common in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease, and is thought to worsen thinking, memory and brain degeneration.
- Trial name
- NCT03112902
- Testing
- Application of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Modulation of Sleep and Cognitive Performance
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Decline
40 Hz Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Inducing Gamma Oscillations
This study aims to compare the efficacy of different 40 Hz tACS protocols in entraining gamma oscillations, which are linked to various cognitive functions and play a significant role in cognitive impairments like Alzheimer's…
- Trial name
- NCT06740864
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The National Brain Mapping Laboratory (NBML)
Gambling Disorder
Effect of High-Intensity Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Gambling Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The investigators assume that High-intensity transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (HI-tACS) could improve gambling disorder patients' executive-control function by modulating abnormal neural activity, particularly…
- Trial name
- HITACSRCT-GD (NCT07228182)
- Testing
- HI-tACS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Mental Health Center
Dyslexia
Role of Auditory Cortical Oscillations in Speech Processing and Dyslexia
This study aims at investigating the role of low-gamma activity in phonemic encoding and its implication in dyslexia. Indeed, a phonological deficit, i.e.
- Trial name
- NCT04277351
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
Alcohol Use Disorder
A Pilot Study of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Boost the Efficacy of Psychotherapy in a Community Sample of People Who Drink Alcohol
The goal of this small (n=75) proof-of-concept randomized clinical trial is to test the effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions with participants who drink at…
- Trial name
- tACS-MI (NCT04770025)
- Testing
- High-density transcranial alternating current stimulation, Motivational interviewing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Mind Research Network
Healthy
Modulating Speech Perception With Current Stimulation
This study aims to further develop tACS as a tool to improve speech perception, by manipulation of brain-speech synchronisation ("entrainment"), thereby transforming a promising approach into a technique that can benefit to…
- Trial name
- SPEECHSTIM (NCT05446350)
- Testing
- transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), electroencephalography (EEG), brain imaging (fMRI)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 126 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Stroke
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Hand Function Recovery
tACS has the potential to directly induce cortical alterations in the intrinsic neural oscillation at specific frequencies, and the brain could mirror the induced frequencies of the external source of oscillations from the…
- Trial name
- NCT04638192
- Testing
- tACS
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Understand the Effects of tACS on the Brain
Investigating Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) Preconditioning Effects on Resting and Active Motor Threshold
Previous studies have looked at the potential of using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to prime the brain in order to lower the resting motor threshold.
- Trial name
- NCT05503823
- Testing
- tACS or tRNS and TMS
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba
Dysphagia, Swallowing Disorder
tACS and tRNS Studies on Brain Control of Swallowing
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) are two (CE marked medical devices) new, non-invasive (over the scalp) brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques.
- Trial name
- NCT04040803
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manchester
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Improvement of Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment
The Clinical Trial will systematically examine the feasibility of remote, caregiver-led tACS for older adults with memory deficits and evaluate whether repeated tACS leads to sustained improvement of neuronal activity and memory…
- Trial name
- NCT05708001
- Testing
- transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), high-density electroencephalography (hdEEG), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lucie Bréchet
Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar and Related Disorders
Targeted Alternating Current and Cognitive Training Intervention for Cognitive Control in Bipolar Disorders
This study is testing whether a type of gentle brain stimulation, combined with computer-based brain training exercises, can help improve thinking skills in Veterans with bipolar disorder.
- Conditions
- Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Veterans, Suicide
- Trial name
- TACTIC-BD (NCT07845409)
- Testing
- Soterix 1x1 tES mini-CT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms, Sensory Disorders
Assessing the Clinical Utility of tACS
The present study seeks to evaluate the clinical utility of repeated transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) by assessing long-term, lasting changes in oscillatory activity and subsequent changes in related behavioral…
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms, Sensory Disorders, Hypervigilance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT03305328
- Testing
- Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida State University
Adults With Variability in Their Mood
Restorative Neurophysiology: Backing up and Restoring the Brain (BandR)
Study to examine the extent to which neurophysiological states recorded for a specific person on one day can be induced on a subsequent day
- Trial name
- BandR (NCT07252011)
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), Neuro/biofeedback, Recall
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia, Cognition Function
tACS to Improve Negative Symptoms & Cognition in Long-term Hospitalized Schizophrenia Patients.
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on negative symptoms and cognitive function in long-term hospitalized patients with schizophrenia.
- Trial name
- NCT07074704
- Testing
- Hi-tACS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tongji University
Healthy
Spectral Characteristics of Memory Transformation
Sometimes, it is necessary to re-learn a previously learned movement behavior, for example, a bad posture during the golf drive or while playing the piano.
- Trial name
- MEM_MOD (NCT05946616)
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) combined with behavioral intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Hearing Loss, Attention Impaired
Exploiting the Potential of Neural Attentional Control to Overcome Hearing Impairment
This study will improve the understanding of the cerebral mechanisms that underlie the control of auditory selective attention and evaluate the potential of neuromodulation to enhance neural attention control as a possible way to…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Attention Impaired, Tinnitus
- Trial name
- NeurAttContr (NCT05513352)
- Testing
- tACS - transcranial alternating current stimulation, NF - Neurofeedback
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 275 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Healthy Participants, Healthy Population
Evaluate the Safety and Feasibility of tACS With the Miamind Neurostimulator in Healthy Participants
The present study aims to assess the safety and feasibility of repeated transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) by the Miamind Neurostimulator in a cohort of healthy participants.
- Trial name
- MindStim (NCT05999916)
- Testing
- Personalized Miamind Neurostimulator
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bottneuro AG