Clinical trials: Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA)
Speech and Language Interventions for Italian People With PPA
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an umbrella term used to refer to several clinical variants that manifest as an insidious deterioration of speech/language skills, usually due to frontotemporal lobar degeneration and/or…
- Trial name
- PPA-rehab (NCT06739967)
- Testing
- Behavioral Treatment
- Where
- 2 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA
Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Progressive Aphasia
Remotely-supervised Neuromodulation in PPA
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether home-based brain stimulation combined with virtual speech-language therapy can improve communication abilities in adults with logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia…
- Conditions
- Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Progressive Aphasia, Progressive Aphasia in Alzheimer's Disease, Logopenic Progressive Aphasia (LPA)
- Trial name
- NCT07260253
- Testing
- Lexical Retrieval Cascade Treatment, Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation- Active
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Maya Henry
Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD), ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
Biofluid Research on Age-Related or Inherited Neurodegeneration
The aim of this study is to contribute to and continue to sustain a repository of blood samples, nucleic acid (DNA and/or RNA) samples, family history information, and other demographic information from individuals with…
- Conditions
- Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD), ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (fFTLD)
- Trial name
- BRAIN (NCT07798700)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Behavioral Variant
Nabilone for Agitation in Frontotemporal Dementia
The primary goal of this study is to test the hypothesis that oral nabilone treatment will reduce agitation compared with placebo in patients with Frontotemporal Dementia (both behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and…
- Conditions
- Frontotemporal Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Behavioral Variant, Primary Progressive Aphasia, bvFTD
- Trial name
- Nabilone-FTD (NCT05742698)
- Testing
- Nabilone
- Where
- 7 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Simon Ducharme, MD
Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA)
Targeted Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Improve Language and Speech in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia
This is a monocenter randomized controlled clinical trial with cross-over arm - assessor blinded. The aims is investigating the effects of the speech language therapy (SLT) alone vs SLT + non-invasive brain stimulation (STIM)…
- Trial name
- NCT06921265
- Testing
- Training with Speech Language Therapy, Standard rTMS, Targeted rTMS
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele
Neurodegenerative Disease, Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)
Tracking and Predicting How Brain Damage Spreads in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) spectrum syndromes, are characterized by the accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates in the central nervous system.
- Conditions
- Neurodegenerative Disease, Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD), Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy(PSP)
- Trial name
- NCT07567664
- Testing
- 3 Tesla MRI without contrast medium, Blood sample for genetic analysis, Cerebrospinal fluid sampling (CSF)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 645 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele
Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA)
Long Term Effect of Brain Stimulation in PPA
The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the effect of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in the progression of primary progressive aphasia for 6 months.
- Trial name
- RECONNECT-PLUS (NCT07158216)
- Testing
- TMS, tDCS
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital San Carlos, Madrid
Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Semantic Dementia
Intervention for Communication Quality of Life in Primary Progressive Aphasia
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a personalized, multi-component, virtual speech language treatment program can improve communication and quality of life for adults with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and…
- Conditions
- Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Semantic Dementia, Logopenic Progressive Aphasia (LPA), Nonfluent Aphasia, Progressive
- Trial name
- Multi-PA (NCT07219680)
- Testing
- Multicomponent Lexical Retrieval Cascade Training, Multicomponent Video Implemented Script Training in Aphasia
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Maya Henry
Frontotemporal Degeneration(FTD), Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA)
UPenn Observational Research Repository on Neurodegenerative Disease
The aim of this study is to create a repository of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, including cognitive, linguistic, imaging and biofluid biological specimens, for neurodegenerative disease research and treatment.
- Conditions
- Frontotemporal Degeneration(FTD), Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (fFTLD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)
- Trial name
- UNICORN (NCT04715399)
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
PPA, Non-fluent Aphasia
Longitudinal Multi-Modality Imaging in Progressive Apraxia of Speech
The study is designed to determine the relationship between structural and functional changes in the brain on imaging and progression of speech and language, neurological and neuropsychological features in patients with…
- Conditions
- PPA, Non-fluent Aphasia, Apraxia of Speech, Primary Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia
- Trial name
- NCT01818661
- Testing
- AV-1451
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Frontotemporal Dementia, Caregiver Burden
STELLA-FTD: Examination of a Behavior Change Intervention for FTD Family Care Partners
The purpose of this nationwide study is to test STELLA-FTD (Support via Telehealth: Living and Learning with Advancing Alzheimer's Disease)-FTD, an intervention to specifically address the needs of family Care Partners of persons…
- Conditions
- Frontotemporal Dementia, Caregiver Burden, Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), Corticobasal Syndrome
- Trial name
- STELLA-FTD (NCT06613204)
- Testing
- STELLA-FTD Control, STELLA-FTD Test
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 640 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
Corticobasal Syndrome(CBS), Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA)
Neuroinflammation in FTLD
The goal of this observational study is to investigate the role of neuroinflammation in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The main aims of this study are: 1.
- Conditions
- Corticobasal Syndrome(CBS), Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy(PSP), Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)
- Trial name
- NCT06870838
- Testing
- 7T MRI scan, CSF, Blood withdrawal
- Where
- 2 sites in Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Leiden University Medical Center
Primary Progressive Aphasia, PPA
Rehabilitating and Decelerating Language Loss in Primary Progressive Aphasia With tDCS Plus Language Therapy
People with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) are is a debilitating disorder characterized by the gradual loss of language functioning, even though cognitive functioning is relatively well preserved until the advanced stages of…
- Trial name
- NCT03728582
- Testing
- Active tDCS plus Speech-Language Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
FTLD, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
Advancing Research and Treatment for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL)
Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) is the neuropathological term for a collection of rare neurodegenerative diseases that correspond to four main overlapping clinical syndromes: frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary…
- Conditions
- FTLD, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD)
- Trial name
- ARTFL (NCT02365922)
- Where
- 17 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,489 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia
PiB PET Scanning in Speech and Language Based Dementias
The study is designed to determine whether there are clinical features that can be used as biomarkers to predict whether underlying Alzheimer's pathology is the cause of a speech and language based dementia.
- Conditions
- PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Aphasia, Non-fluent Aphasia
- Trial name
- NCT01623284
- Testing
- C-11 PiB, F-18 FDG
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 168 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic