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Transcranial Stimulation Combined With Auditory Training

NCT06738030 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 94

Last updated 2024-12-17

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if non-invasive brain stimulation (called transcranial stimulation) can enhance the benefits from auditory training in people who struggle to understand one talker when many people are talking at the same time. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does transcranial stimulation improve speech-on-speech understanding in people who struggle with this task?
* Does transcranial stimulation enhance the benefits of a commercially available auditory training program?

Researchers will compare transcranial stimulation to sham stimulation (no stimulation is applied during the listening task).

Participants will:

* Receive login information to an online auditory training program to complete at home over 2 weeks
* Visit the laboratory 4 times to receive transcranial stimulation while listening to speech-on-speech: once before at-home training, two times during the at-home training period, and once after at-home training has ended

Conditions

  • Difficulties Understanding Speech in Noise

Interventions

DEVICE

Transcranial current stimulation

The transcranial alternating current stimulation is delivered during the speech stimulus and the current matches the envelope of the target speech

BEHAVIORAL

Auditory training

An at-home auditory training program that adaptively and interactively trains the listener in degraded speech, cognitive skills, and communication strategies

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Boston University Charles River Campus

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-20
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2026-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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