NCT03915483

Transfer Effects of Combined Attentional Filter Exercise and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Cognitive Transfer Effects on Working Memory and Higher Cognitive Functions by Combined Attentional Filter Exercise and tDCS in Healthy Younger Adults

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Investigation of how a single session of an attentional filter exercise of distractor inhibition combined with tDCS modulates cognitive functions like working memory, decision making and attentional control.

Detailed description

The study is designed as a between subject design with two groups defined by real or sham tDCS. The distractor inhibition exercise is conducted under either sham or real tDCS. Cognitive performance is assessed pre and post tDCS application, complemented by a short-termed follow-up on a consecutive day. Interindividual working memory capacity at baseline is taken into consideration.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)	sham or real tDCS for 10 minutes of 1.5 milliampere (mA) tDCS targeting the prefrontal and the posterior parietal cortex

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-10
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2019-04-16
• Last updated: 2019-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany