Clinical trials: tDCS
Substance Use Disorders, Substance Abuse
tDCS and Impulsivity
Substance use disorder (SUD) affects more than 23 million Americans and claims more than 70,000 lives annually. With 40-60% relapse rate, SUD patients are high hospital utilizers, 65% of the incarcerated population, and are at…
- Conditions
- Substance Use Disorders, Substance Abuse, Substance Use
- Trial name
- NCT05845164
- Testing
- tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Arizona
Parkinson Disease
Direct Measurement of Motor Cortical Responses to tDCS
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has shown the potential to improve symptoms in patients with movement deficits, such as Parkinson's disease and chronic stroke.
- Trial name
- NCT04759898
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation (invasive recording)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus to Improve Social Impairments in Children with Autism
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if high definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) of right inferior frontal gyrus works to improve social impairments in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Trial name
- NCT06723522
- Testing
- HD-tDCS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Central South University
Stuttering, Fluency Disorder
Using Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Explore Potential Treatments to Reduce Speech Errors in Adults Who Stutter
The goal of this study is to find out whether a type of noninvasive brain stimulation can help reduce speech errors, such as repetitions, blocks, and prolongations, in people who stutter.
- Trial name
- NCT07354139
- Testing
- High - Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas at Dallas
OCD, Decision-Making
Arbitration Between Habitual and Goal-directed Behavior in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Circuit Dynamics and Effects of Noninvasive Neurostimulation
People utilize two behavioral strategies, goal-directed and habitual, when engaging in value-based decision-making that involves rewarding or punishing outcomes.
- Conditions
- OCD, Decision-Making, tDCS, fMRI
- Trial name
- NCT04075890
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Obesity
tDCS With Cognitive Training to Reduce Impulsivity and Weight in Veterans With Obesity
The purpose of this study is to investigate if transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can increase the effectiveness of cognitive training to reduce impulsivity in individuals with obesity, and to evaluate weight change…
- Trial name
- NCT05225233
- Testing
- Active Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 99 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Major Depression, Treatment Resistant Depression
Combining rTMS and tDCS in Depression: an Exploratory Clinical Trial
The investigators aim to conduct a single-arm open-label clinical trial, meaning that the investigators will be administering a treatment protocol to one group of patients, where no information is withheld from trial…
- Trial name
- CombTMS (NCT06500533)
- Testing
- rTMS combined with tDCS
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 7 people
- Sponsor
- Regionspsykiatrien Gødstrup
Hemiplegia, Stroke
Evaluation of the Observance and the Tolerance of a Motor Training Program
Transcortical direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging technique in the rehabilitation of hemiplegic patients after stroke.
- Trial name
- ESTIMAH (NCT02844868)
- Testing
- Active tDCS
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 13 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Treating Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) Using High-definition tDCS
This is a double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study in which subjects with the non-fluent/agrammatic and logopenic variants of primary progressive aphasia (naPPA and lvPPA, respectively) will undergo language testing and…
- Trial name
- NCT04046991
- Testing
- high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation, modified constraint-induced language therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Essential Tremor
Alternating Current Stimulation for Essential Tremor
Movement disorders are common neurological disorders, characterized by either excess or paucity of movements. Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common of these disorders, defined as chronic, rhythmic involuntary movements…
- Trial name
- NCT04509349
- Testing
- transcranial Altering Current Stimulation
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Chronic Insomnia
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Insomnia: An Open-Label Pilot Study
This is an open-label pilot clinical trial to evaluate the effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in adults diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and chronic primary insomnia.
- Trial name
- NewWaves (NCT07429578)
- Testing
- Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS)
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
Stroke, Electroencephalogram
CEEG Changes After Tdcs and Dual-task Training
Stroke has been considered one of the main causes of long-term disability in the adult population. Technological advances in the neurological area have been observed in the last decades, which accentuates the interest in…
- Trial name
- NCT05492435
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Paraíba
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Speech-Language Treatment With Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a disorder characterized by gradual decline in speech-language ability caused by underlying neurodegenerative disease.
- Trial name
- NCT05901233
- Testing
- Remotely supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (RS-tDCS), Lexical Retrieval Training (LRT), Video Implemented Script Training in Aphasia (VISTA)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients With Drug-resistant Focal Epilepsy
The basis of this project is the application of cathodal tDCS in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy including patients whose seizures persist after epilepsy surgery, who rejected epilepsy surgery, and/or who are not…
- Trial name
- NCT05951244
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation-TessaNova (Teknofil-Turkiye)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Koç University
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Primary Progressive Aphasia
In the present sham-controlled study, the investigators examine whether tDCS could be used to enhance language abilities (e.g., picture naming) in individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) primarily characterized by…
- Trial name
- NCT02928848
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, Schizophrenia
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
The current study investigates the basic principles that underlie the efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation for chronic auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia in a multimodal design.
- Trial name
- NCT01801787
- Testing
- tDCS
- Where
- 2 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Chemsex
Effectiveness of tDCS on Reducing Craving in Patients Practicing Chemsex: a Single-center, Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a new treatment for chemsex or "chemical sex", the use of psychoactive substances to modify sexual experience and performance.
- Trial name
- CHEMSTIM (NCT05945199)
- Testing
- tDCS, Assessment of risk behaviours, Scales
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Aphasia, Stroke
Brain Correlates of Multimodal Rehabilitation in Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia
Post-stroke aphasia (PSA), the partial or total loss of the ability to produce and/or understand language associated with stroke, is a highly prevalent and disabling disorder that negatively impacts the personal, social and…
- Trial name
- NCT04134416
- Testing
- Donepezil, Intensive-Language Action Therapy, Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University of Malaga
Minimally Conscious State, TBI
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Effects in Patients With Chronic Consciousness Disorders
Chronic consciousness disorders have high level of impact on public health and its costs.
- Trial name
- NCT02288533
- Testing
- real-tDCS
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital of Ferrara
Upper Extremity Paresis
Priming With tDCS: Expanding the Window of Recovery in Chronic Stroke
Stroke often leads to long-term disability including upper extremity (UE) dysfunction even with the provision of timely rehabilitation services.
- Trial name
- NCT03964467
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- University of the Sciences in Philadelphia