NCT03582579

Enhancing Brain Training With Virtual Reality

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of brain training in a Virtual Reality set up in neurotypical populations as well as in the traumatic brain injury population.

Detailed description

Brain training is a large and a growing field, both scientifically and commercially. Emerging evidence demonstrates that training can promote beneficial brain plasticity in both healthy individuals and clinical populations. Much of the recent interest in brain training can be traced back to the seminal work done at the University of Rochester, where Daphne Bavelier and colleagues showed that training with action video games (AVG) can lead to a wide range of cognitive and perceptual improvements. In our recent work, we developed a novel training paradigm that isolates and concentrates the key aspects of AVG-training while eliminating complex and often violent gameplay associated with AVGs. The results revealed similarly broad effects of training as with conventional AVGs. In this study, we aim to move this training paradigm to virtual reality (VR) and extend its application to cognitive aging and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) populations.

Conditions

• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Training in Virtual Reality	Action Video Game Based Training in Virtual Reality
BEHAVIORAL	Training on a computer screen	Action Video Game Based Training on a computer screen

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-27
• Primary completion: 2025-09-01
• Completion: 2025-09-01
• First posted: 2018-07-11
• Last updated: 2024-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States