Cognitive Embodiment Activation by tDCS (GEST)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Young Adults

Treatments: Device: sham-tDCS; Device: tDCS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03094520

GEST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of the proposed research is to extend our understanding of how gesture and language interact, focusing on the role of cognitive embodiment in this interaction, and to explore the neural systems that support links between language and actions systems.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Right handedness
• unobtrusive neuropsychological screening

Exclusion criteria

• History of severe alcoholism or use of drugs.
• Severe psychiatric disorders such as depression, psychosis (if not in remission) and severe untreated medical problems.
• Contraindication for MRT (claustrophobia, metallic implants, ferromagnetic metals in the body, disorders of thermoregulation, pregnant women).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Anodal tDCS + semantic, motor, attentional tasks

Experimental group

Description:

Combination of gestural (subjects have to indicate if the gesture is related to the word), attentional and motor tasks with anodal stimulation

Treatment:

Device: tDCS

Sham tDCS + semantic, motor, attentional tasks

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Combination of gestural (subjects have to indicate if the gesture is related to the word), attentional and motor tasks with sham stimulation

Treatment:

Device: sham-tDCS