Clinical trials: tDCS, completed
Schizophrenia, Major Depression
A Double Blind Sham Controlled Trial of tDCS in Treating Schizophrenia and Depression
The project will investigate the use of a novel technique, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression.
- Trial name
- NCT00481026
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), active tDCS
- Where
- Australia
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Bayside Health
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
Binge Drinking
Cognitive Retraining and Brain Stimulation for Alcohol Use
The overarching goal of this study is to determine whether combined cognitive training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) reduces drinking in high-risk drinkers.
- Trial name
- NCT02045108
- Testing
- Active Retraining, Active TDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 77 people
- Sponsor
- The Mind Research Network
Depression, Bipolar
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression
Non-invasive brain stimulation therapies have been increasingly investigated in recent years as a treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly mood disorders.
- Trial name
- TDCS-BD (NCT02152878)
- Testing
- Active stimulation
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
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
Spinal Cord Injuries
Effectiveness of NEUROM and tDCS for Motor Recovery in Chronic Paraplegia
Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) is a catastrophic, unexpected, and devastating event that can occur along the spinal column (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar).
- Trial name
- NEUROM (NCT04790149)
- Testing
- Conventional Rehabilitation, NEUROM + tDCS, NEUROM
- Where
- Lebanon
- Volunteers
- 56 people
- Sponsor
- Lebanese University
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
Pain, Postoperative
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Reduction of Pain and Postoperative Opioids Consumption After Spine Surgery
The experience of pain derives from changes in brain excitability. Therefore, modulating the excitability of cortical areas involved in pain processing may become an attractive option in the context of multimodal analgesia during…
- Trial name
- NCT03278184
- Testing
- active prefrontal cortex stimulation, active motor cortex stimulation
- Where
- 2 sites in Egypt, United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 75 people
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Cervical Syndrome
Treatment of Neck Pain With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
This study aim to investigate the effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for improving pressure pain thresholds (PPTs), range of motion,Neck Disability Index, the multidimensional health related quality of life…
- Trial name
- NCT04729270
- Testing
- Physiotherapy treatment with physium device., Conventional physiotherapy treatment.
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Cadiz
Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
Maintenance Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Depression
Transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) techniques offer a novel treatment approach for depression and have shown promising efficacy.
- Trial name
- NCT01890356
- Testing
- Transcranial electrical stimulation
- Where
- Australia
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- The University of New South Wales
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment - aMCI
Cognitive Outcomes of Brain Stimulation As a Later-in-Life Treatment
This is a pilot study being done to attempt to improve episodic memory problems in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
- Trial name
- COBALT (NCT05564715)
- Testing
- NeuroElectric StarStim
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stroke, Acute
Acupuncture-tDCS Convergence Rehabilitation Effect on Stroke Patients
The purpose of this study is to confirm the convergence effectiveness of on acupuncture of the chinese medicine and the tDCS of the western medicine on motor function for patients with acute stroke compared to the control group.
- Trial name
- NCT05648162
- Testing
- Electrical acupuncture, Acupuncture, tDCS
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital
Memory Disorders, Word Finding Difficulty
Treatment of Memory Disorders in Gulf War Illness With High Definition Transcranial Direct Cortical Stimulation
A debilitating and common symptom in Gulf War Illnesses (GWI) is the inability to retrieve words. This affects one's conversations, ability to fluidly exchange information verbally and retrieve information from memory.
- Trial name
- GWI HDtDCS (NCT03542383)
- Testing
- High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 93 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas at Dallas
Cerebrovascular Accident
Improving Motor Learning in Stroke Patients
No universally successful therapy exists that promotes recovery of motor function after a stroke, the main cause of long-term disability among adults.
- Trial name
- NCT00067197
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Smoking Behaviors, Smoking, Cigarette
AAT + tDCS to Reduce Cue-induced Craving and Smoking Behavior
Smokers are highly reactive to smoking-related stimuli and report that this cue reactivity (CR) is a major obstacle to quitting.
- Trial name
- NCT05426460
- Testing
- Approach/Avoidance Task, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, AC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- Cynthia Conklin
Hemiparesis
Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Pediatric Hemiparesis
The primary objective of this proposal is to investigate the safety of use of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)in children with hemiparesis.
- Trial name
- tDCS (NCT01636661)
- Testing
- tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Depression, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Therapy for Bipolar Depression
Bipolar disorder is a severe and disabling disorder. The course of illness is often progressive but is highly heterogeneous between individuals and within the lifetime for an individual.
- Conditions
- Depression, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorders, Mental Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT05436613
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 44 people
- Sponsor
- University of East London
Effect of tDCS on Memory in Older and Younger Adults
Effect of Noninvasive Electrical Brain Stimulation on Memory at Different Times of Day in Younger and Older Adults
This study will investigate the extent to which tDCS to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (or dlPFC) impacts memory performance as a function of time-of-day in younger and older adults.
- Trial name
- NCT03723850
- Testing
- Active tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 271 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Healthy, Pediatrics
Accelerating Motor Learning in Pediatrics
Non-invasive brain stimulation can both study and potentially treat neurological disorders. Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging safe and tolerability form of stimulation and has been used increasingly…
- Trial name
- AMPED (NCT03193580)
- Testing
- Anodal Conventional tDCS, Anodal High Definition tDCS
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Therapy Resistant Major Depression
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Treatment-resistant Depression
tDCS applies a small amount of direct electric current (DC) to the brain by means of two electrodes: the one is an active electrode, localized on the effective site, and the other is a reference electrode, localized on some…
- Trial name
- NCT00667680
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) - Eldith DC-Stimulator
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich