Enhancing Cognitive Training Using tDCS

The University of New South Wales

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Cognition

Treatments: Procedure: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01333306

10269

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cognitive rehabilitation involves enhancing an individual's capacity to process information to improve their everyday functioning. One common form of intervention is computerised cognitive training (CT); however, efficacy results have been mixed. This research aims to investigate a novel method for enhancing outcomes from CT through combining CT with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive and painless form of brain stimulation. In this study we aim to determine the efficacy of this approach through comparing in a randomized controlled study tDCS combined with CT versus CT and tDCS alone in healthy participants. We hypothesise that tDCS combined with CT will have greater generalisability effects than the other conditions.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants will be healthy right-handed subjects aged 18 to 40

Exclusion criteria

• Concurrent medication likely to affect mental performance
• History of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence current or in the last 3 months
• Any psychiatric or neurological disorder, recent head injury, or history of seizure or stroke

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

tDCS and cognitive training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)