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GentleTouch (Study to Evaluate Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) Responses to Affective Touch and How it Develops in Healthy Term Babies)

NCT03731195 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2023-12-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will attempt to measure the direct effect of pleasant skin touch on the developing infant brain. The massage intervention stimulates a specific class of unmyelinated C-fibres in the skin called C-touch (CT) afferents, and effects will be assessed by monitoring brain responses (GentleTouch Project) in a prospective cohort study.

Conditions

  • Pleasant Touch
  • Cortical Response

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University College London - Institute of Child Health (UCL-ICH)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Science Foundation Ireland

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johnson & Johnson

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University College Cork

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ronit Pressler, MD · University College London - Institute of Child Health (UCL-ICH)

Eligibility

Min Age
37 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-09
Primary Completion
2020-12-30
Completion
2021-07-08

Countries

  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom

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