There are about 13446 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Belgium. 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.
The investigators' main focus of this trial will be to investigate - why people with low back pain perceive lifting (with a bent back) as harmful. - whether general measures of pain-related fear are associated with task-specific measures of perceived harmfulness - why people with low back pain avoid lifting (with a bent back) This will be investigated using self-report (i.e., questionnaires)
Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are a heterogenous group of brain malformations including lissencephaly, heterotopia and polymicrogyria. The lissencephaly spectrum (including lissencephaly, pachygyria and subcortical band heterotopia) is a well-defined group of MCD with a strong monogenetic basis. Using current molecular techniques, a causative variant is detected in approximately 80% of individuals with lissencephaly. In a routine diagnostic setting, exome-based gene panels are most frequently used while whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) are increasingly being implemented. Both techniques have their shortcomings including the detection of small copy number variants, the identification of pathogenic variants in non-coding regions as well as variant interpretation. The parallel use of quantitative RNA sequencing, measuring differences in RNA expression could be a possible solution for these shortcomings. The proposed research project will for the first time 1) evaluate the added value of WES/WGS combined with quantitative RNA sequencing for the identification of novel genes in individuals with lissencephaly, 2) identify the optimal sampling tissue for RNA sequencing in complex neurological phenotypes and 3) use RNA expression data to provide an evidence base for the current lissencephaly classification.
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of propofol induced general anaesthesia on the ST-segment of the electrocardiogram. This will be realised by retrospectively analysing the ECG-recordings from adult patients undergoing any treatment at the Catheterisation Laboratory. The ST-segment and other ECG measurements from induction of anaesthesia up to 20 minutes later, will be assessed and compared to the baseline values of the respective segments acquired before injecting propofol. It is essential in this study to exclude any patients burdened with the diagnosis, suspicion or family history of Brugada syndrome.
In a Flemish sample of parents of children with psychiatric problems, this study evaluates the effect of a parent group training based on nonviolent resistance on family functioning, parenting variables and mental states of the parents, pre- and post-training.
The aim of our study is to evaluate the effect of magnesium on the hypnotic effect of propofol.
The goal of the present study is to determine the occurrence of wild-type and hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy among patients with the diagnosis of idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in the setting of a state-of-the-art diagnostic work-up; the investigators believe that the identification of patients with ATTR-CM in this setting can contribute to the early diagnosis of a largely underrecognized condition and, therefore, offer conditions to timely initiation of appropriate therapy with impact on prognosis of patients.
Due to better medical care, a growing number of patients with congenital heart disease reach adulthood. A large number of these patients needs a redo cardiac surgery. No guidelines of best transfusion practice exist for this patient population. A retrospective analysis of all adult patients with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery between 2000 and 2020 will be performed. Transfusion practices and their influence on outcome at 30 days and 6 month will be evaluated.
This project aims to investigate the health effects of making schools greener and more biodiverse. We will mainly focus on cognitive effects, well-being, and BMI. The research hypothesis is that greening schools positively influences the health of children through more exercise and cleaner air.
QSPainRelief-patientCNS is a monocentric prospective longitudinal study conducted in patients suffering from disabling post-surgical pain for which the treating physician is about to prescribe a given drug combination for the treatment of their pain with the aim of identifying measures of drug-induced effects on CNS activity that could be used as biomarkers of real-life clinical outcome, both in terms of desired treatment effects (treatment-induced pain relief) but also in terms of undesired treatment effects (treatment-induced sedation and treatment-induced cognitive dysfunction).
The purpose of this project is to provide further insights into the neurophysiology behind the MF-induced impairment in endurance performance. The aim is to perform a randomized controlled trial in which we partly replicate studies of Marcora et al. (2009) and Bigliassi et al. (2017), while extensively monitoring brain activity during the entire protocol (i.e. both cognitive and physical tasks) by using EEG.