Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02110056
Modulation of Visual-Spatial Learning in Healthy Older Adults by tDCS
Modulation of Visual-Spatial Learning in Healthy Older Adults by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - Proof of Principle and Mechanisms
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 32 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 50 Years – 90 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The aim of this study is to investigate whether a combination of intensive training of visual-spatial abilities (LOCATO task) with anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) leads to an improvement of learning and memory in healthy older adults and to examine the underlying neuronal mechanism.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | tDCS | transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) |
| BEHAVIORAL | training | intensive training of visual-spatial abilities (in LOCATO task) |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-11-01
- Completion
- 2015-11-01
- First posted
- 2014-04-10
- Last updated
- 2018-01-30
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02110056. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.