Enhancing Cognitive Training Using tDCS

Cognition Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01333306
• Other study ID #: 10269
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: April 7, 2011
• Last updated: April 23, 2013
• Start date: September 2010
• Est. completion date: April 2013

Study information

• Verified date: September 2010
• Source: The University of New South Wales
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Australia: Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Cognitive rehabilitation involves enhancing an individual's capacity to process information to improve their everyday functioning. One common form of intervention is computerised cognitive training (CT); however, efficacy results have been mixed. This research aims to investigate a novel method for enhancing outcomes from CT through combining CT with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive and painless form of brain stimulation. In this study we aim to determine the efficacy of this approach through comparing in a randomized controlled study tDCS combined with CT versus CT and tDCS alone in healthy participants. We hypothesise that tDCS combined with CT will have greater generalisability effects than the other conditions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: April 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants will be healthy right-handed subjects aged 18 to 40

Exclusion Criteria:

• Concurrent medication likely to affect mental performance

• History of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence current or in the last 3 months

• Any psychiatric or neurological disorder, recent head injury, or history of seizure or stroke

Study Design

Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cognition

Intervention

Procedure:
• Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	Black Dog Institute Building	Sydney	New South Wales

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of New South Wales

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Australia,