Clinical trials: tDCS, completed
Primary Progressive Aphasia
HDtDCS in Logopenic Variant PPA: Effects on Language and Neural Mechanisms
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a therapy called High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) for the treatment of the language deficits experienced by people with a type of Primary…
- Trial name
- NCT03805659
- Testing
- HD-tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Depression, Physical Activity
tDCS for Increasing Exercise Adherence in Depressed Individuals
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation) for increasing exercise adherence among low active individuals with elevated depressive symptoms.
- Trial name
- StRIDE (NCT03178903)
- Testing
- tDCS, Aerobic Exercise (AE)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people
- Sponsor
- Butler Hospital
Chronic Low Back Pain
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Chronic Low Back Pain
The goal of this study is to investigate the role of central neural pathways in mediating chronic pain. The aim of the study is to test the effect of stimulating brain regions that are part of a network underlying central pain…
- Trial name
- NCT02768129
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Butler Hospital
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Treating Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) Using tDCS
This is a double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study in which subjects with the non-fluent/agrammatic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia (naPPA and svPPA, respectively) will undergo language testing and…
- Trial name
- NCT04566731
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Modified Contraint-Induced Language Therapy (mCILT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
A Telerehabilitation Program for SCI
This study evaluates a remotely supervised, home-based therapeutic program to improve upper-limb voluntary movement in adults with tetraplegia caused by incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI).
- Trial name
- NCT04977037
- Testing
- Active tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Healthy Adults
Stimulating the Social Brain
This study investigates whether the way in which individuals process social stimuli can be altered, and specifically, whether feelings of paranoia and suspiciousness can be reduced by stimulating the brain's regulatory regions…
- Trial name
- NCT03374631
- Testing
- active anodal tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas at Dallas
Cervical Spinal Cord Injruy
Improving SCI Rehabilitation Interventions by Retraining the Brain
The Long-term goal of this project is to develop upper limb rehabilitation interventions that can be utilized for cervical Spinal Cord Injury survivors.
- Trial name
- NCT03892746
- Testing
- Active tDCS + task oriented practice
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
Osteo Arthritis Knee
Home-based tDCS and Mindfulness-based Meditation for Self-management of Clinical Pain and Symptoms
This clinical trial aims to evaluate whether a 2 week regimen of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) paired with mindfulness-based meditation (MBM) can improve pain modulation, reduce clinical pain, and alleviate…
- Trial name
- NCT04375072
- Testing
- active tDCS paired with active MBM
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 208 people
- Sponsor
- University of Arizona
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder
Feasibility Electrical Stimulation Study for Visual Hallucinations
The visual system has increasingly been recognized as an important site of injury in patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses.
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT04870710
- Testing
- transcranial electrical stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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
Alzheimer Disease
Home-based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)
The purpose of this study is to assess acceptability, and safety of providing tDCS to ADRD patients with behavioral symptoms and to assess the efficacy of tDCS for ADRD-related symptoms, mainly behavioral symptoms.
- Trial name
- NCT05478681
- Testing
- active tDCS
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Cocaine Addiction, Cocaine-related Disorder
Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation as Treatment for Crack-cocaine Addiction
The use of crack-cocaine is growing at alarming rate in our country and it is absolutely worrisome the fast establishment of addiction to it.
- Conditions
- Cocaine Addiction, Cocaine-related Disorder, Executive Dysfunction
- Trial name
- NCT01337297
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Espirito Santo
Cognitive Impairment, Mild, Depressive Symptoms
Brain Stimulation and Enhancing Cognition in Older Adults
The aim of the current research is to evaluate the efficacy of a combination of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to improve cognitive function in individuals with…
- Conditions
- Cognitive Impairment, Mild, Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT03653351
- Testing
- Active Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Working Memory
Traveling-wave Transcranial Electric Stimulation
This study will assess the impact of traveling wave transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on working memory performance in adults.
- Trial name
- TravelingTES (NCT05399381)
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Healthy
Effect of Electrical Stimulation (DC Polarization) to the Brain on Memory
This study will test the effect of direct current (DC) brain polarization (the application of a very weak electrical current to the brain) on learning and memory.
- Trial name
- NCT00471107
- Testing
- DC brain polarization
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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
Nicotine Addiction
tDCS Effects on Resisting Smoking: Dose Ranging Study
Behaviors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and sedentary behavior have far-reaching health implications. These modifiable behaviors account for a substantial proportion of deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease and…
- Trial name
- RDR (NCT02624284)
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 172 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Stroke, Acute
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as a Neuroprotection in Acute Stroke
This proposal is a prospective, single-center, dose-escalation safety, tolerability, feasibility and potential efficacy study of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in acute stroke patients with substantial salvageable…
- Trial name
- TESSERACT (NCT03574038)
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Pain
Pilot Study of Transcranial Stimulation (tDCS)to Relieve Neuropathic Pain in Cancer Patients
This is a pilot study designed to collect preliminary data on safety and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to relieve pain in cancer patients who developed neuropathic pain in the affected area after a…
- Trial name
- NCT01948050
- Testing
- non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Medical Center
Cannabis Use Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis
A Teleheath tDCS Approach to Decrease Cannabis Use
The study aims to evaluate the effect of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in decreasing distress and cannabis use.
- Trial name
- NCT05005013
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Mindfulness
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health