Trials / Terminated
TerminatedNCT04855643
Home-based tDCS for Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease
Home-based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)
- Status
- Terminated
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 3 (actual)
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess feasibility, acceptability, and safety of providing tDCS to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) patients with apathy and to assess the efficacy of tDCS for ADRD-related symptoms, with a primary focus on apathy.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | home-based active tDCS | Anode and cathode electrodes will be placed over the left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortexes, respectively, with the use of the Omni-Lateral-Electrode system. Caregivers will set up and administer tDCS for participants with ADRD at home. tDCS will be applied for 30 min at an intensity of 2mA, with 30 s ramping up and down. All sessions will be remotely supervised by trained research staff. |
| DEVICE | home-based sham tDCS | For sham stimulation, electric current will be applied only in the first 30s tDCS. All sessions will be remotely supervised by trained research staff. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2021-08-20
- Primary completion
- 2022-07-10
- Completion
- 2022-07-10
- First posted
- 2021-04-22
- Last updated
- 2024-04-23
- Results posted
- 2024-04-23
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Regulatory
- FDA-regulated device study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04855643. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.