NCT02998684

Learning Enhancement Through Neurostimulation in Autism

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine whether brain stimulation paired with social skills learning can help teenage boys with autism learn how to make and keep friends. Brain stimulation can enhance learning in some people. This study involves enrolling in a 14-week training program where teenage boys with autism interact in small groups and learn social skills. During the 14-week program participants will receive active brain stimulation, or non-active stimulation (placebo). Before and after this training, MRI scans will be taken to see whether the training with active brain stimulation made a different in brain activation.

Conditions

• Autism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Active Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
DEVICE	Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
BEHAVIORAL	PEERS Social Skills Training	14 weekly social skills training sessions for all participants

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2016-12-20
• Last updated: 2018-09-04
• Results posted: 2018-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States