Clinical trials: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Healthy Participants
Externalization and Stimulation
The distinction between self-generated and external information is impaired in patients with schizophrenia, who are assumed to confuse imagination with real perceptions.
- Trial name
- STUPEFIX (NCT05936307)
- Testing
- High-definition transcranial direct current (HD-tDCS), active condition
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hôpital le Vinatier
Stroke
Cognitive Training After Stroke : Effects and Mechanisms
Stroke is a major cause of severe cognitive and physical disability. Despite the high and increasing incidence, and large health, economic, social and personal consequences, studies designed to remedy cognitive impairments and…
- Trial name
- NCT04932304
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- 2 sites in Norway
- Volunteers
- 54 people
- Sponsor
- Oslo University Hospital
Aphasia, Stroke, Acute
tDCS to Treat Subacute Aphasia
This study proposes to use transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a technique by which a very small electrical current (2 mA) is applied to the scalp, along side speech therapy in patients with subacute stroke and…
- Trial name
- NCT04048668
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Neuropathic Pain
Cortical Stimulation by Direct Current for the Treatment of Chronic Pain : Pilot-study of a Stimulation Device at Home
The purpose of this study is to confirm the analgesic effect of tDCS in neuropathic chronic pain, to estimate the importance and the duration of this effect, and to improve its efficiency by the use at home.
- Trial name
- STIMATHOME (NCT02346396)
- Testing
- tDCS (use at home)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Knee Osteoarthritis
Enhancing Modulation Effects of Baduanjin Through Neuromodulation for Knee OA
This study will combine brain imaging and neuromodulation tools to investigate the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of exercises.
- Trial name
- NCT05839535
- Testing
- BDJ, tDCS, exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 140 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Nicotine Withdrawal, Tobacco Abstinence
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Tobacco Withdrawal Symptoms
We hypothesize that transcranial direct current stimulation will reduce tobacco withdrawal symptoms of tobacco dependent smokers abstinent from smoking for more than 10 hours.
- Trial name
- tDCSsmokers (NCT01567982)
- Testing
- tDCS, prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Hemianopia, Stroke
Combined tDCS and Vision Restoration Training in Subacute Stroke Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study
The purpose of this Study is to determine whether non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is effective in increasing rehabilitation effects after stroke in visual Cortex.
- Trial name
- NCT02935413
- Testing
- tDCS, Standard rehabilitation
- Where
- 2 sites in Austria, Germany
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- University of Magdeburg
Cognitive Impairment
Non-Pharmacological Treatments and Cognitive Impairment (NPT-CI2019)
The prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases is expected to increase over the next years, in parallel with the aging of the world population.
- Trial name
- NPT-CI2019 (NCT04118686)
- Testing
- CoRe software training plus non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (anodical tDCS / rTMS)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- IRCCS National Neurological Institute "C. Mondino" Foundation
Epilepsy
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) in Drug-resistant Partial Epilepsy
Drug-resistant partial epilepsy has a heavy impact on quality of life and sometimes on life expectancy itself. Only a minority of patients may benefit from a curative epilepsy surgery.
- Trial name
- BRAINSTIM (NCT02465970)
- Testing
- STARSTIM
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Rennes University Hospital
Cocaine Addiction, Cocaine-related Disorder
Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation as Treatment for Crack-cocaine Addiction
The use of crack-cocaine is growing at alarming rate in our country and it is absolutely worrisome the fast establishment of addiction to it.
- Conditions
- Cocaine Addiction, Cocaine-related Disorder, Executive Dysfunction
- Trial name
- NCT01337297
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Espirito Santo
Stroke
Effect of tDCS on Upper Extremity After Strokes
The investigators hypothesize that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can improve upper limb motor recovery in the sub-acute phase of stroke patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02987361
- Testing
- DC-STIMULATOR PLUS
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 72 people
- Sponsor
- Chonbuk National University Hospital
Major Depression Disorder
Home tDCS for the Treatment of Major Depression.
The purpose of this multicentric randomized controlled trial is to compare the effectiveness and safety of home-based tDCS for the treatment of major depression versus tDCS treatment in a healthcare centre, and explore the…
- Trial name
- NCT07510880
- Testing
- Accelerated protocol of home Transcranial direct current stimulation, Conventional protocol of home Transcranial direct current stimulation, Conventional protocol of in person Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- 3 sites in Spain
- Volunteers
- 198 people
- Sponsor
- Ionclinics & Deionic SL
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Disgust Reduction Through Evaluative Conditioning (DREC) and tDCS in Contamination-Based OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating health condition that is known by intrusive and unwanted thoughts and repetitive behavioral or mental acts. 2-3% of the population suffers from OCD in their lifetime.
- Trial name
- NCT05907369
- Testing
- Active EC training, Active tDCS
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 55 people
- Sponsor
- Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Stroke, Cerebral Infarction
Transcranial Stimulation and Motor Training in Stroke Rehabilitation
This study aims to test whether repeated sessions of tDCS result in long-lasting improvements in motor function in patients with chronic stroke.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Cerebral Infarction, Cerebrovascular Disorders, Brain Diseases
- Trial name
- tDCS (NCT01414582)
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Motor Training
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Difficulties Understanding Speech in Noise
Transcranial Stimulation Combined With Auditory Training
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if non-invasive brain stimulation (called transcranial stimulation) can enhance the benefits from auditory training in people who struggle to understand one talker when many people are…
- Trial name
- NCT06738030
- Testing
- Transcranial current stimulation, Auditory training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 94 people
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Schizophrenia, Psychosis
Prefrontal Cortical Engagement Through Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Schizophrenia
Cognitive impairments in schizophrenia are the most debilitating aspect of the illness and poorly treated by current medications.
- Trial name
- NCT02975973
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Stroke, Cerebral
Clinical Study for Upper Limb Motor Restoration in Chronic Stroke Patients Using Personalized Neuro-technologies
This study aims to evaluate safety, tolerability and efficacy of a new treatment for upper limb motor rehabilitation after severe stroke using non-invasive neurotechnologies.
- Trial name
- AVANCER (NCT04448483)
- Testing
- Paretic upper limb functional electric stimulation through RehaStim, Non-invasive transcranial current stimulation through DC-Stimulator
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering
Psychotic Disorders
Transcranial Brain Stimulation and Its Underlying Neural Mechanisms as a Novel Treatment for Auditory Hallucinations
The present study aims to investigate whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) reduces auditory hallucinations in patients with psychosis. In addition, the neuronal changes of tDCS will be examined.
- Trial name
- NCT02769507
- Testing
- DC Stimulator PLUS (NeuroConn)
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- University of Bergen
Epilepsy
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) As A Tool For Prospective Responder Identification Before Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Implantation
The aim of the study is to establish tDCS as a prognostic tool to predict VNS therapy outcome among patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy.
- Trial name
- NCT00625222
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- University of Luebeck
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
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