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Brain and Cognitive Changes After Reasoning Training in Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment

NCT02596906 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2023-10-30

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Summary

Individuals aged 55 and older may experience negative effects of cognitive decline. The proposed research seeks to evaluate the benefits of different types of interventions: reasoning training following transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and reasoning training following sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on frontal- lobe mediated cognitive measures of executive control in adults with memory complaints, in the absence of dementia.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

tDCS

Prior to the reasoning training, participants will undergo tDCS. Participants will receive 20 minutes of tDCS using 2mA or less targeting the inferior frontal gyrus prior to each of their 8 reasoning training sessions for a total of 160 total combined minutes. This time does not include set up time which should take no more than 5 minutes. A brief engaging film is shown to participants during the 20 minute session.

DEVICE

Sham tDCS

For the sham tDCS group, the device will be turned off after 30s. The only reported sensations from tDCS is an itching or a tingling when the device turns on but disappears quickly. Thus, those receiving sham tDCS will be unaware that the device has turned off, and will experience an initial tingling similar to that received in the tDCS group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Texas at Dallas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra Chapman, PhD · The University of Texas at Dallas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-01-31
Completion
2018-01-31
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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