NCT03467698

Investigating Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Accelerating Learning in a Healthy Older Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas at Dallas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall objective of this study is to explore whether transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can accelerate associative learning and boost associative memory in healthy subjects.

Detailed description

The overall objective of this study is to explore whether transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can accelerate associative learning and boost associative memory in healthy subjects. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) stimulation during a verbal paired-associate learning task to determine if tDCS may be used as a way to enhance brain plasticity during an associative memory task, and to accelerate learning and to optimize associative memory performance. We hypothesize that participants who receive tDCS stimulation will improve their associative memory performance.

Conditions

• Associative Memory in Healthy Subjects

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Active tDCS	Real stimulation
DEVICE	Sham tDCS	Sham stimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-21
• Primary completion: 2022-09-17
• Completion: 2022-10-21
• First posted: 2018-03-16
• Last updated: 2024-01-09
• Results posted: 2024-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study