Clinical trials: Progressive Aphasia
Primary Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia
Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a progressive neurological disorder that causes a gradual decline in communication ability as a result of selective neurodegeneration of speech and language networks in the brain.
- Conditions
- Primary Progressive Aphasia, Semantic Dementia, Semantic Memory Disorder, Logopenic Progressive Aphasia
- Trial name
- NCT04881617
- Testing
- Lexical Retrieval Training (LRT), Video-Implemented Script Training for Aphasia (VISTA)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Stuttering, Developmental, Aphasia, Primary Progressive
Investigating Speech Sequencing in Neurotypical Speakers and Persons With Disordered Speech
Persistent developmental stuttering affects more than three million people in the United States, and it can have profound adverse effects on quality of life.
- Trial name
- NCT05437159
- Testing
- Learning of non-native phoneme combinations: 6 training sessions, Learning of non-native phoneme combinations: 1 training session, Learning of novel multisyllabic nonwords
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 278 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
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