NCT04231825

At-home Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation During Multitasking

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal is to replicate in-lab results from transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) with at-home tACS.

Detailed description

Participants will be assessed in-lab on multitasking and sustained attention abilities. Participants will be sent home with a tACS device to be used at-home for five days while engaged in a multitasking paradigm that is different from the multitasking outcome measure used pre/post tACS. After the at-home stimulation is complete, participants return to UCSF for a final in-lab assessment of multitasking and sustained attention ability.

Conditions

• Multitasking Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Transcranial alternating current stimulation	Transcranial alternating current stimulation across the prefrontal cortex using electrodes F3 and F4.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-15
• Primary completion: 2020-08-15
• Completion: 2020-09-15
• First posted: 2020-01-18
• Last updated: 2022-03-21
• Results posted: 2021-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study