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Improving Motor Learning in Stroke Patients

NCT00067197 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2017-07-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

No universally successful therapy exists that promotes recovery of motor function after a stroke, the main cause of long-term disability among adults.

The purpose of this study is to develop strategies to improve recovery of lost motor function. It will combine motor skills training with a brain-stimulating technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

Healthy adult volunteers and adult stroke patients will be enrolled in this study. Participants will come to NIH for a clinical and neurological exam, and, if necessary, an MRI \[magnetic resonance imaging\] examination. Participants will return for 4 sessions; each lasting approximately 3 hours. The first will be a practice session during which participants will become familiar with the motor skills required of them in this study, such as performing finger movements on a keyboard, pinching, tapping, making wrist movements, and lifting small items. In sessions 2 and 3, participants will perform the motor skills they practiced in session 1 while receiving tDCS. During session 4, they will receive tDCS only, with no performance of motor skills.

During tDCS, investigators will place electrodes with a gel on participants' heads and pass the tDCS current between these two electrodes. tDCS is a painless procedure.

Participants will receive up to $420 in compensation for their involvement in this study.

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Conditions

  • Cerebrovascular Accident

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

    lead NIH

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-08-11
Completion
2008-07-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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