Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00001926
The Connection Between Areas in the Brain of Blind Patients
Connectivity of Occipital and Somatosensory Cortical Areas in Blind Subjects
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 45 (planned)
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) · NIH
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to test the belief that specific areas of the brain are connected differently in blind patients than patients with sight. In addition, the study will examine the different anatomical connections between brain areas of patients who became blind early in life versus patients who became blind later.
Detailed description
The purpose of this protocol is to test the hypothesis that the anatomical connectivity of occipital and somatosensory areas in early blind subjects differs from that in subjects who became blind later in life and from that in sighted volunteers.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DRUG | O15 | |
| DEVICE | Cadwell rTMS |
Timeline
- Start date
- 1999-04-01
- Completion
- 2003-11-01
- First posted
- 1999-11-04
- Last updated
- 2008-03-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00001926. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.