Cognitive Stimulation

Johns Hopkins University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Computerized cognitively stimulating activities

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01271413

NA_00042772

1R21DA029708 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research is being done to learn if computer tasks that challenge the brain (cognitively stimulating tasks) can improve memory and other types of thinking. The study will compare the effects of different versions of the computer tasks. It also will compare the task performance of different groups of people.

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18-55
• in methadone maintenance or healthy volunteers
• healthy

Exclusion criteria

• Axis I disorder (except substance abuse and dependence in methadone maintenance patients)
• severe cognitive impairment
• serious untreated medical condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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134 participants in 2 patient groups

Adaptive cognitively stimulating activities

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Computerized cognitively stimulating activities

Non-adaptive cognitively stimulating activities

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Computerized cognitively stimulating activities