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Neural Bases of Cognitive Rehabilitation for Brain Injury

NCT01120756 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 35

Last updated 2019-08-02

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Summary

Some of the most common and disabling consequences of brain injury are deficits in cognition, such as difficulty with sustained attention, memory, organization, and goal management. The long-term goal of this research program is to develop and test novel neuroscience-based cognitive interventions for improving attentional regulation and related "executive function" brain processes involved in goal-directed behavior.

Conditions

  • Brain Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Goal-oriented attentional self-regulation

This will involve 5-7 weeks of training (20 hours of group training (2 hour sessions, 2 days per week), 3 hours of individual training (1 hour at the beginning, halfway through and at the end of training), and approximately 20 hours of home practice). In brief, the GBSM training protocol is designed to maximize the potential for improving attention regulation skills and the goal-directed functions they support, applying mindfulness-based attention regulation training to practice in redirecting attention to goal-relevant processes especially in the context of distractions is emphasized throughout training. Participants are asked to identify realistic functional goals as feasible individual and group projects, and are then trained in goal management strategies on the functional task(s) of their choice.

BEHAVIORAL

Brain Health Education

Brain Health Education (EDU) will involve 5-7 weeks of training (20 hours of group training (2 hour sessions, 2 days per week), 3 hours of individual training (1 hour at the beginning, halfway through and at the end of training), and approximately 20 hours of homework). The EDU intervention involves education in health and brain injury in a classroom format, with study materials for homework.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Anthony Chen, MD MA · Martinez Outpatient Clinic, Martinez, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-01
Primary Completion
2018-05-30
Completion
2018-12-29

Countries

  • United States

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