Clinical trials: Cognitive Training
Aging
Non-invasive Nerve Stimulation and Cognitive Training to Improve Cognitive Performance in Healthy Older Adults
Decline in brain health and associated loss of cognitive function in healthy aging decreases quality of life.We need better tools to both enhance brain health and improve cognitive performance in healthy brain aging so that it…
- Trial name
- NCT04276805
- Testing
- Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS), Cognitive training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Long-Term Memory Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Wayfinding Intervention in High-Fidelity Long-Term Memory
Therapeutic treatment is yet available for declining memory, which is an impairment affecting the quality of life for many older adults and patients with cognitive impairment.
- Trial name
- LABYR (NCT04253587)
- Testing
- LabyrinthVR, Coherence, Tablet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Aging, Healthy
ACTIVE: Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly
The purpose of the ACTIVE study was to test if cognitive training interventions could maintain functional independence in elders by improving basic mental abilities, with follow-up assessments through five years.
- Trial name
- ACTIVE (NCT00298558)
- Testing
- Cognitive Training
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 2,832 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Carelon Research
Cognitive Function, Preclinical, Chronic Kidney Diseases
Exercise Training and Cognitive Function in Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), affects over 45% of all individuals over 70 years of age. Patients with moderate CKD have more than a two-fold increased risk of cognitive impairment than those without CKD; furthermore, as many as…
- Conditions
- Cognitive Function, Preclinical, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Older Adults
- Trial name
- NCT03197038
- Testing
- Partially supervised home-based walking exercise, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 39 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
Aging
Augmenting Cognitive Training In Older Adults
A two-phase adaptive randomized clinical trial will examine the individual and combined impact of pairing cognitive training with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
- Trial name
- ACT (NCT02851511)
- Testing
- Cognitive Training, tDCS (active stimulation), Educational Training
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 379 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Alcohol Use Disorder
Sex Differences, Cognitive Training & Emotion Processing
This pilot project addresses two understudied questions related to neurocognitive deficits observed in treatment-seeking alcoholics.
- Trial name
- NCT03137654
- Testing
- Affective Training, Neutral Training
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Applying a Person-Centered Approach to Enhance Cognitive Training in Senior Living Community Residents With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Computerized cognitive interventions (CCIs) have been increasingly widely implemented among older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
- Trial name
- CogT-PACT (NCT03292705)
- Testing
- PEP, CCI
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Rochester
Healthy Adults
Characterizing the Synergistic Effects of Physical and Cognitive Training on Attention and Working Memory
The primary goal of this project is to evidence potential synergistic benefits on cognitive control processes using a video game ("Body-Brain Trainer", or BBT) that integrates cognitive and physical challenges in a complimentary…
- Trial name
- BBT (NCT03032796)
- Testing
- Body-Brain Trainer, Body Trainer, Brain Trainer
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Mild Cognitive Impairment
The Effectiveness of TECH: Tablet Enhancement of Cognition and Health
This study assess the effectiveness of novel cognitive intervention utilizing tablet apps (TECH protocol: Tablet Enhancement of Cognition and Health) to improve cognitive abilities, daily function and health-related quality of…
- Trial name
- TECH (NCT02955277)
- Testing
- TECH: Tablet Enhancement of Cognition and Health protocol, Standard care or active standard care
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assuta Hospital Systems
Alcohol Abuse, Cognitive Deficit in Attention
Pilot Study on Training Emerging Adults Skills in Navigating College
Lifetime risk for developing an alcohol use disorder increases with earlier onset of alcohol consumption. This risk may reflect a tendency for escalated alcohol intake among youth due to immature executive control, leading to…
- Trial name
- SINC (NCT05560425)
- Testing
- Koru Mindfulness (KM) Training, Navigating College (NC) Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Evaluation of Web-based Training to Educate Physicians in the Methods of Interpreting Florbetapir-PET Scans
This study will investigate the performance of physician readers trained to read florbetapir-PET scans using electronic media training.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Trial name
- NCT01550549
- Testing
- florbetapir F 18
- Volunteers
- 151 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Water-based Activity to Enhance Recall in Veterans
This two-year study will evaluate the feasibility of an exercise training augmentation for cognitive training intervention to improve memory performance in Veterans with a diagnosis of amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI).
- Trial name
- WATER-VET (NCT02614092)
- Testing
- Water-based Activity + Cognitive Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Low Education, Cognition
MINDSpeed Food and Brain Training RCT
The purpose of this study is to learn how foods high in polyphenols and brain training exercises affect older adults' cognitive performance
- Conditions
- Low Education, Cognition, Cognitive Training, Polyphenols
- Trial name
- MINDSpeed (NCT03419052)
- Testing
- Speed of processing training, MIND foods, Cognitive training control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 212 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Falls (Accidents) in Old Age
Evaluating Technology-Based Fall Prevention Interventions
Approximately one in three older adults fall annually and it is the primary cause of traumatic injury in older adults. While exercise and balance programs have been shown to be effective in reducing fall risk, maintaining…
- Trial name
- FaCT2 (NCT03190460)
- Testing
- Cognitive Training, Technology-based Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Cognitive Training for Diabetes Self-Management
The overall objective of this study is to determine the effects of a comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation intervention on biological, cognitive, and diabetes self-management outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT04831775
- Testing
- Memory, Attention, and Problem Solving Skills for Diabetes, Brain Games
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 95 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Aging, Cognitive Aging
Impact of Music Improvisation Training on Cognitive Function in Older Adults
This project will develop and test the effects and mechanisms of a music improvisation training intervention on self-regulation of older adults with and without MCI.
- Conditions
- Aging, Cognitive Aging, Cognitive Impairment, Cognitive Training
- Trial name
- NCT05980286
- Testing
- Piano Improvisation, Music Listening
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Stroke
Combined Cognitive and Gait Training
Recent research in gait training for stroke survivors showed that coordinated gait components can be best restored using the following interventions together: coordination exercises, over ground gait training, and body weight…
- Trial name
- CogGait (NCT02362282)
- Testing
- Gait training, cognitive training, Arm training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Healthy Aging
Using Teleneuropsychology to Optimize Cognition in Healthy Aging: the Web-based Breakfast Game
Executive control processes involve initiate, coordinate, synchronize, and regulate elemental cognitive functions for the conduct of goal-directed behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT05506852
- Testing
- Web-based training strategy, Web-based regular training (no strategy)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Effect of Exercise Training on Physical, Cognitive, and Behavioral Function in People With TBI
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often causes problems with moving and balance, and thinking and emotions. Exercise can improve these things in people with other brain damage.
- Trial name
- NCT02504866
- Testing
- Vigorous exercise, Light to moderate exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment
Effectiveness of an Electronic Training Program for Orienting and Interpreting [18F]Flutemetamol Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Images
To Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Electronic Training Program for Orienting and Interpreting [18F]flutemetamol Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Images.
- Trial name
- NCT01672827
- Testing
- [18F]Flutemetamol
- Volunteers
- 276 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- GE Healthcare