There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Tobacco control is a Public Health priority. Tobacco is directly responsible for 75,000 deaths per year in France. Without help, less than 5% of smokers are still abstinent within 12 months of quitting. The use of nicotine substitutes only increases the chances of success in smoking cessation by 2 to 3%. Brain imaging research shows that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is involved in tobacco addiction. Disorders induced in the CPFDL cause an irrepressible desire to smoke (craving) and explain a large part of the relapse at the time of smoking cessation. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) could be promising in smoking cessation. This technique allows direct stimulation of the DLPFC via a magnetic coil, so as to reduce the cortical activity of the DLPFC, and thus reduce tobacco craving. A first randomized controlled study was conducted at the Dijon University Hospital in Dijon in smokers who were heavily addicted and who had failed with the usual withdrawal strategies. In this study, it was found that the combination of nicotine substitutes (to reduce the physical symptoms of withdrawal) with 10 sessions of TCS (to reduce craving) made it possible to maintain abstinence from tobacco during the first 2 weeks of withdrawal (% abstinence = 88.8% active TCS group vs. 50% placebo TCS group; p=0.027). However, in this study, the therapeutic effect of the nicotine-TCS combination was not prolonged once the stimuli stopped. At 6 and 12 weeks from the start of withdrawal, abstinence rates in the active SMT and placebo SMT groups were no longer significantly different. It is therefore proposed to renew the protocol by adding maintenance brain stimulation to the initial protocol. Used in the treatment of depression, the maintenance brain stimuli could increase the chances of smoking cessation.
Neurofeedback is a cognitive remediation technique that allows a subject to learn to regulate their cognitive and brain activity through information provided in real time about their brain activity, in particular electroencephalographic (EEG) brain activity. Neurofeedback could, through its impact on the degree of neuronal synchronization, help to reduce the impact of sleep deprivation on wakefulness and cognitive performance. The main objective is to study the effect of a program of 8 sessions of neurofeedback targeting EEG theta / beta activities, to modify the degree of neuronal synchronization, on the ability to maintain objective wakefulness measured by a maintenance wakefulness test (MWT) in healthy subjects presenting objective excessive daytime sleepiness after a full night of sleep deprivation under controlled experimental conditions. The objective of this study will also provide a better understanding of the learning modulation mechanisms of arousal systems.
People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder display alterations in cognition and metacognition. These alterations may have an impact on learning during therapeutic education programs.
This Phase 2b study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adavosertib, an inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase WEE1, in subjects with recurrent or persistent uterine serous carcinoma (USC) who have previously received at least 1 prior platinum-based chemotherapy regimen for the management of USC.
In this study, in addition of conventional treatment, the efficacy of the medical device, Remedee One, in medical care of patients with peripheral osteoarthritis pain is evaluated.
The purpose of the Study is to compare the outcomes of the surgical and the percutaneous approach to the upper extremity access (axillary or brachial artery) during endovascular procedures on the aortic valve, the aorta, and its side branches.
In anorexia nervosa,the eating disorder (ED) is the cause of thinness. In severe obesity, the overweight is a symptom. This symptom, however, is only the consequence of possibly deregulated eating behavior. The literature, focusus a specified ED of DSM-V: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) or Binge Eating, whom estimated prevalence in the severely obese population varies from 1.4 to 49% depending on the studies. The other ED, called unspecified ED (or EDNOS for Eating Disorder Non Otherwise Specified in the English literature), are much less known. The main objective of this study is to assess the prevalence rate of unspecified ED (EDNOS or "non-BED ED") in subjects with severe obesity (BMI> 35) consulting for medical or surgical management in a General Hospital Center CSO (Specialized Obesity Center) using an adapted version of the QEWP-R, called the QEWP-RA.
Blood transfusion is at the heart of the therapeutic arsenal when there is a hemorrhage and/or blood loss during a surgery. There are two types of transfusion: the homologous one (blood from a compatible donor) and the autologous or autotransfusion method (which is done with the patient's own blood). Although homologous transfusions can save lives, it can cause significant adverse events. Since then, multiple solutions have been developed to avoid exposing patients to these risks. It is in this context that was born the "Patient Blood Management" (PBM). Thus, the strategy in this PBM has been defined as "the appropriate use of blood and blood components, with the aim of minimizing the use of allogeneic transfusions". In this context, particular interest has been given to autologous transfusion or autotransfusion or cell salvage, the general purpose is to reduce (or even stop) the use of allogeneic products and to reduce the risks associated with the ABO compatibility system, as well as all the adverse effects associated with allogeneic plasma and platelet transfusions. Most autotransfusers available on the market operate by centrifugation. Autotransfusion is already a solution in Patient Blood Management and its efficiency and safety have already been optimized. However, there is still a need to improve the quality of the treated blood with an easier-to-use device that could improve the quality of the blood concentrate. Indeed, with the current devices, it may happen that the use of allogeneic transfusions, plasma and platelets transfusions, is necessary in addition to autologous red blood cells thus reducing the interest of autotransfusion. It is in this context that i-SEP has developed a new autotransfusion device based on a filtration method. Unlike competing devices, the i-SEP device allows the concentration of not only red blood cells (as competitive devices) but also platelets. In this study, the i-SEP device is used in typical clinical applications of autotransfusion: cardiovascular and orthopedic surgeries, where there is a risk of hemorrhage and/or blood loss for example ≥ 500mL in cardiac surgery and ≥ 300mL in orthopedic surgery. The study includes a screening phase (≤ 21Days), surgery phase when the i-SEP device is used (Day 0), a post-surgery phase (Day 1 - Day 6), a first follow-up visit (Day 7 ± 3) and a second follow-up visit (Day 30 ± 7).
Urinary tract infections are common in infants. Obtaining urine from pre-continent children can be difficult and time consuming. The method of collection must balance reliability, speed, low rate of contamination, and invasiveness. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, midstream clean-catch urine is an acceptable method to diagnose urinary tract infections. However, it is impractical in pre-continent children. Recently, two quick, safe and effective methods have been reported in the literature: - The Quick-wee method: it consists in stimulating the suprapubic area with a cold and wet compress to obtain urines. - The bladder stimulation method : the child is held under the armpits with legs dangling and a physician taps the suprapubic area and massages lumbar area alternatively. However, advanced age, high weight, and level of discomfort during bladder stimulation were significantly associated with failure to obtain urines.
As observed with SARS-CoV responsible for SARS 2003, the new coronarovirus SARS-CoV-2 uses the angiotensin converting enzyme type 2 (ACE2) as cellular receptor to infect cells. The renin aldosterone angiostensin system (RAAS) has known effects in the lungs: some receptors are pro-inflammatory, others are anti-inflammatory. Thus the deregulation of the RAAS induced by the SARS-CoV-2 could explain the inflammatory response of Covid-19 infection and be a modulator of the severity of its course. Furthermore, the SARS 2003 experience suggests that there may be others endocrine involvment, particularly an failure on the hypothalamus-pituitary and adrenal axis. Indeeed, cases of hypocorticism and hypothyroidism of central origin were described. Altogether, the endocrine system might play a role both in the pathophysiology of Covid-19 infection and in the activity and severity of the disease. In this study, the investigators proposed to explore endocrine functions on biological samples in a series of patients admitted for Covid-19 in our clinic.