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tDCS to Enhance Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia

NCT01733602 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2017-08-08

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Summary

The primary aim for the study is to determine whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhances training gains on cognitive training (CT) tasks. Secondary aims are to determine whether tDCS combined with CT causes larger transferable improvements on non-trained tasks (i.e., generalisation effects) and whether these generalisation effects are maintained over time (i.e., maintenance effects).

Specific hypotheses are:

1. CT combined with active tDCS will produce greater training gains on CT tasks compared to a similar control group receiving CT with sham tDCS.
2. CT combined with active tDCS will produce greater generalisation effects on non-trained cognitive tasks compared to CT with sham tDCS.
3. The cognitive improvements gained by patients from both interventions will be maintained over 1 month follow-up.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

transcranial direct current stimulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of New South Wales

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-11-30

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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Diseases

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