Peripheral Vision Training Study (PVTS)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Change; Visual Impairment

Treatments: Other: computerized training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03141164

X101022014

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will train participants (young people and older adults) to do a visual task, and will assess whether this results in changes in behavioral assessments. In some participants, we will be also testing whether MRI measures (cortical thickness, functional connectivity) change with training.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Right handed individuals
• Aged 19-89
• In good health as self-reported or visual impairments due to partial vision loss
• Normal or corrected-to-normal vision with contact lenses or visual impairments due to partial vision loss

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 18 or older than 89
• Being hearing-impaired
• Not in good health except due to partial vision loss
• Having a previous serious head injury or neurological disorder, or loss of consciousness for more than 2 minutes
• Having hallucinations or delusions
• Having a current or past history of a substance abuse disorder
• Currently taking psychoactive medications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Training

Experimental group

Description:

Computerized vision training

Treatment:

Other: computerized training

Control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham

Treatment:

Other: computerized training