Clinical trials: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Nicotine Dependence
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in a Smoking Cessation Trial
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) plus nicotine patch as a viable smoking cessation program for nicotine dependent smokers.
- Trial name
- tDCS (NCT01710410)
- Testing
- active transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Traumatic Brain Injury
Relationship Between Attention and Emotional Regulation Post-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
The purpose of this pilot study is to investigate the relationship between attention and emotional function post-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in an effort to better understand the cognitive mechanisms of emotional processing in…
- Trial name
- NCT01681589
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulator (TDCS), Control Group, Healthy Control Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Stroke
tDCS Combined With Constraint Induced Movement Therapy and Role of GABA Activity in Stroke Recovery
The aim of this study is to determine whether noninvasive brain stimulation in form of active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT) offers an additional benefit as…
- Trial name
- NCT01983319
- Testing
- active anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT)
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Healthy
Aftereffects and Reliability of Two Homeostatic Plasticity Induction Protocols
People suffering from chronic pain exhibit changes in the way the central nervous system processes pain. Some of the changes in the central nervous system are associated with how the brain adapts to the process of different…
- Trial name
- NCT04324801
- Testing
- Homeostatic plasticity induction using transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aalborg University
Stroke
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Functional Electrical Stimulation for Upper-limb Rehabilitation After Stroke
The aim of this study is to verify the effectiveness of tDCS combined with FES on upper limb rehabilitation of post-stroke subjects with moderate and severe compromise.
- Trial name
- NCT02818608
- Testing
- Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES), Combination of Transcranial direct brain stimulation (tDCS) and FES
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre
Stroke
Combine Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Stroke Patients
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown not only to improve motor function but also increase cortical excitability and neural plasticity.
- Trial name
- NCT02821884
- Testing
- Combination of tDCS and NMES
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Subthreshold Depression, Young People
TDCS Interventions for Subthreshold Depressive Symptoms in Young Individuals.
The purpose of this study is to assess the mechanisms of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in alleviating subthreshold depressive symptoms in young individuals, and individualized outcome prediction is…
- Conditions
- Subthreshold Depression, Young People, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Trial name
- NCT06294184
- Testing
- tdcs lDLPFC, tdcs rVLPFC
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guangzhou Psychiatric Hospital
Anxiety, Stress
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Augments the Effects of Gamified, Mobile Attention Bias Modification
The present study tested whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) across the prefrontal cortex (PFC), versus sham stimulation, effectively augments the beneficial effects of a gamified attention bias modification…
- Trial name
- NCT04348812
- Testing
- ABMT, Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
Performance Enhancement
Effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Soldiers' Cognitive and Functional Performance
Non-invasive brain stimulation has been shown to alter performance in both clinical and healthy populations on cognitive tasks. While the performance alterations have generally been shown to result in enhancement, mixed results…
- Trial name
- NCT04155333
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- United States Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory
Healthy Older Adults
tDCS Effects on Associative Learning in Older Adults of Retirement Age
The aim of this study is to investigate whether a tDCS-accompanied training of audio-visual associative memory leads to a performance improvement in healthy older individuals.
- Trial name
- TRAINSTIM2 (NCT02839993)
- Testing
- tDCS, training
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Appetite, Binge Eating Behaviour
Effects of Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Appetite
This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-design study aims to evaluate the neurophysiological effects of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on appetite in adults with binge eating…
- Conditions
- Appetite, Binge Eating Behaviour, Food Cravings
- Trial name
- NCT07757438
- Testing
- Active Home-Based tDCS
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
Stroke, Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
Investigating Central Contributions to Fatigue Using Non-invasive Brain Stimulation
The goal of this interventional study is to understand the contribution of the central components to the manifestation of neuromuscular fatigue in stroke survivors.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA), Ischemia Stroke, Hemorrhage Stroke
- Trial name
- NCT07613970
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stroke
How Does Cerebellar tDCS Alter Intracortical Inhibition Over Time?
Combining cortical tDCS with behavioral interventions has been shown to have beneficial outcomes in individuals post-stroke. However, cerebellar tDCS is a fairly new approach for individuals with unilateral cortical stroke and…
- Trial name
- NCT06384495
- Testing
- REAL-A, REAL-C
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Healthy
Neuromodulation-assisted Ego-disengagement: The NEURO-EGO Study Stage 1
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether brain stimulation technology can help people reach a meditative state quickly and easily without years of meditation training.
- Trial name
- NCT06601686
- Testing
- Transcranial electrical stimulation (TES), Transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference (TES-TI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fatigue
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Transcranial Direct Current and Muscle Fatigue Stimulation on Muscle Fatigue
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) can impact muscle fatigue. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1.
- Trial name
- NCT06389162
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Cognition Disorder, Brain Mapping
Facilitating Numerical Processing With Transcranial Stimulation in Developmental Dyscalculia
Background: Developmental dyscalculia is a learning disability in which individuals have difficulty learning or comprehending mathematics or other number concepts (such as keeping score during games, measuring time, or estimating…
- Trial name
- NCT01195961
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
First Episode Psychosis (FEP), Psychosis
Early Psychosis: Investigating Cognition
The project aims to explore changes in brain chemistry in individuals who have recently experienced psychosis. Recent research suggests that chemicals in the brain, specifically one called glutamate, may behave differently in…
- Trial name
- EPIC (NCT07196423)
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Functional Neurological Disorder
Integrated Treatment in FND (Functional Neurological Disorders)
The project will investigate the effectiveness of patient-centered integrated treatment. The correlations between physiotherapy indices, non-invasive brain stimulation, connectivity and psychological support will be analyzed.
- Trial name
- FND (NCT04310670)
- Testing
- Psychotherapy, Physiotherapy, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
Anemia, Sickle Cell, Chronic Pain
tDCS Associated With Peripheral Electrical Stimulation for Pain Control in Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease
So far, no study investigated the safety and efficacy analgesic of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) associated to peripheral electrical stimulation (PES) in individuals with SCD who suffer from chronic pain.
- Trial name
- tDCS/PES_SCD (NCT02813629)
- Testing
- tDCS plus PES
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Faculdade Adventista da Bahia
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Exploring the Possible Beneficial Impact of Non-invasive and Invasive Neuromodulation on Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease During Different Ambulatory Complexities: An Electrophysiological and fMRI Study
Freezing of gait (FOG) stands out as a devastating symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), where patients may become momentarily glued to the ground, rendering them incapable of walking efficiently.
- Trial name
- NCT06505460
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- China Medical University Hospital