NCT03093142

The Treatment Effectiveness of Combined tDCs and Neurofeedback (NF) for Patients With Cognitive Deficits After Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a double blinded, randomized control trial with a pretest-posttest control and interventional groups design. Both the assessor and participants are blinded to all assessments and evaluations. All patients with subacute stroke undergo in-patient or out-patient rehabilitation are screened initially by a series of screening test. Suitable patients are assigned randomly to 3 groups respectively. Group 1 is the combined transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and neurofeedback group. Group 2 is the neurofeedback group. Group 3 is the control group with sham neurofeedback training.

Detailed description

Treatment sessions for all three groups are conducted by the investigators who has training in neurofeedback and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCs). Each participant performed 10 training sessions on different days. Sessions were conducted 3-5 times a week The tDCS + neurofeedback group will carry out 30 minutes tDCS and 30 minutes neurofeedback training. The real neurofeedback group will carry out 30 minutes neurofeedback training. The sham neurofeedback group will conduct the 30 minutes sham neurofeedback training.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	tDCS & neurofeedback	tDCs and neurofeedback
DEVICE	neurofeedback	Neurofeedback
DEVICE	sham neurofeedback	sham neurofeedback

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-30
• Completion: 2020-12-30
• First posted: 2017-03-28
• Last updated: 2024-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong