There are about 173942 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in United States. 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.
Can community outreach education help develop self-sustaining wellness and exercise programs, and will associated wellness clinics help persons with a neurological physical disability achieve better well-being?
The primary objective of the study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of SPG stimulation with the ISS in patients with an acute ischemic stroke in the anterior circulation initiated within 24 hours from stroke onset.
This trial screens patients with colon or rectal cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) for genetic mutations for recommendation to a molecularly assigned therapy. Identifying gene mutations may help patients enroll onto target companion trials that target these mutations.
This pilot study aims to test the safety, feasibility, and initial efficacy of combined 10 week treatment of prolonged exposure (PE) and Pramipexole in patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression (MDD). Resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) will be assessed at baseline and en of treatment.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability (side effects) of single (Part A) and multiple (Part B) doses of the study drug when it is administered subcutaneously (under the skin) into the abdomen. This is a two-part study. Participants will enroll in only one part. For each participant, Part A will last about 10 weeks and Part B will last about 23 weeks, including screening.
This study uses mobile eye-tracking technology in order to characterize patterns of visual attention to communication supports, as well as a partner, within real world interactions for individuals with Down syndrome. Visual communication supports are central components of what is termed augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention. AAC refers to the methods and technology designed to supplement spoken communication for people with limited speech. "Aided" AAC is a subcategory in which an external aid stores and presents for use visual symbols such as photographs, line drawings, or alphabet letters. The most traditional means of structuring aided AAC displays is to present the language concepts within row-column grids, which contain individual symbols/concepts placed in each grid square. The investigator's previous work investigated whether these grid-based presentations could be improved by understanding how different perceptual features of the displays influence responding (i.e., whether what the display looks like influences how easily the information on it is found). Individuals with developmental disabilities and children developing typically were faster and more accurate in finding information on some displays over others, when tested using a "visual search" task (aka, a "finding game" - "find the dog"). The previous investigations have evaluated visual attention within a setting that isolated visual processing of the AAC display as the primary dependent measure. However, communication requires attention not only to an AAC display, but also to a communication partner. Therefore, the current study seeks to examine questions of visual attention to both an AAC display and a communication partner. The investigators will manipulate characteristics of the structure of the display (e.g., arrangement of symbols), in order to determine if more optimal displays facilitate desirable patterns of visual attention to both the communication display and the partner. The mobile eye-tracking technology captures attention to both the display and the communication partner. The investigators anticipate that participants will be able to attend to their partner and the shared activity more when the AAC display is more optimal, but that when the AAC display is sub-optimal, the participants will have to spend more time examining the AAC display and less time in actual communication.
This study will assess the potential efficacy and safety of TSC as early treatment for both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke when administered while subject is in ambulance being transported to hospital.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal (GI) syndrome characterized by chronic abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of any organic cause. The symptoms of IBS not only adversely affect a patient's health-related quality of life (QoL), but also place a significant financial burden on society due to reduced work productivity and increased use of healthcare-related resources. Patients with IBS frequently complain of abdominal bloating and increased gas production in the form of flatulence or belching. The prevalence in North America and Europe is approximately 10-15%. Irritable bowel syndrome affects all ages and genders however there is a 2:1 female predominance in North America. Irritable bowel syndrome is classified into 4 subtypes based on stool pattern: IBS with constipation (IBS-C), IBS with diarrhea, mixed IBS, and un-subtyped IBS. Irritable bowel syndrome with constipation is defined as the presence of hard or lumpy stools with ≥ 25 percent of bowel movements and loose or watery stools with < 25% of bowel movements. SYN-010 is a modified release, oral formulation of lovastatin being developed for the treatment of IBS-C. The SYN-010 program is based predominantly on research by Dr. Mark Pimentel and collaborators hypothesizing that reduction in intestinal methane (methane) production can reverse constipation and improve global symptoms in IBS-C. Methane production in humans is due to methanogenic archaea in the intestine, predominantly Methanobrevibacter smithii (M. smithii). Methane, the key product of anaerobic respiration of methanogens, had been perceived to produce no ill effects in humans aside from gaseous distention. However, several research groups worldwide have shown that a significant percentage of patients with IBS-C excrete methane, and elevated methane production by methanogens correlates with constipation and related symptoms in both IBS-C and chronic idiopathic constipation. A direct causative role for methane in IBS-C was demonstrated in a recent case report, wherein a woman undergoing fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for C. difficile infection unknowingly received stool containing a high concentration of methanogens. The FMT recipient rapidly developed severe symptoms of IBS-C that were subsequently reversed by ablation of methane production.
This study is conducted at the Henry Ford Health System with Lifegraph's behavioral monitoring technology, to examine the relation between migraine attacks and behavioral and environmental changes as detected from the smartphone sensors. The investigators hypothesize that Lifegraph's technology can predict the occurrence of migraine attacks with high precision.
This is a randomized, controlled, single-blind, multicenter, two Arm (Treatment or "Scaffold" Arm; Standard of Care or "Comparator" Arm) of a Neuro-Spinal Scaffold to evaluate whether the Scaffold is safe and demonstrates probable benefit for the treatment of complete T2-T12 spinal cord injury as compared to standard of care open spine surgery.