Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02587338
Cognitive Ability Training in Seniors
Verbesserung Kognitiver Fähigkeiten im Alter
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 38 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Wuerzburg University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study investigates the beneficial effects of prefrontal brain stimulation (with transcranial direct current stimulation \[tDCS\]) during working memory training in seniors with subjective memory impairments.The placebo-controlled double blinded study includes 50 elderly probands which were randomized into verum or sham tDCS.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Verum tDCS | Neuropsychological (Working memory) training for 30 minutes, 6 sessions tDCS during training with 2000 microampere left anodal, right cathodal |
| DEVICE | Sham tDCS | Neuropsychological (Working memory) training for 30 minutes, 6 sessions tDCS during training with 0 microampere |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-10-01
- Completion
- 2016-12-01
- First posted
- 2015-10-27
- Last updated
- 2024-03-12
- Results posted
- 2024-03-12
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02587338. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.