NCT03138590

Investigating Accelerated Learning in Healthy Subjects: Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation

Investigating Accelerated Learning in Healthy Subjects

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether it is possible to accelerate learning and improve associative memory performance in healthy subjects, by applying transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) targeting the trigeminal nerve during a verbal paired-associate learning task

Detailed description

Associative memory refers to remembering the association between two items, such as a face and a name or a word in English and the same word in another language. It is not only important for learning, but it is also one of the first aspects of memory performance that is impacted by aging and by Alzheimer׳s disease. For decades, neuroscientists have investigated associative learning and memory and ways to accelerate and enhance associative learning and memory. Transcranial Direct Current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive and painless electrical stimulation technique that has demonstrated to accelerate learning and improve memory in some studies. To investigate whether it is possible to accelerate learning and improve associative memory using tDCS, the performance in a Verbal Paired-Associate memory task of 2 groups will be compared. The first group will get active tDCS during the verbal paired-associate learning task. The second group will get sham tDCS during the verbal paired-associate learning task.

Conditions

• Healthy Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation- Neuroconn DC Stimulator PLUS	Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation targeting the trigeminal nerve

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-04
• Primary completion: 2022-01-25
• Completion: 2022-01-25
• First posted: 2017-05-03
• Last updated: 2022-02-03
• Results posted: 2020-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study