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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON47655
NL-OMON47655
Completed
Not Applicable

Cross-modal plasticity in the auditory cortex of pre- and postlingual deaf patients - Cross-modal brain plasticity in deaf patients

niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht0 sites30 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Deafness
Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Enrollment
30
Status
Completed
Last Updated
2 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
2 years ago
Study Type
Observational non invasive

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • In order to be eligible to participate in the complete study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
  • \- Age between 18 and 60 years
  • \- Normal or corrected to normal vision
  • \- Normal literacy in the Dutch or English language;Additional inclusion criteria for the three studied groups:
  • Hearing control group
  • \- Hearing thresholds for individual frequencies tested in standard audiometry (125, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, and 8000 Hz) \<\= 30 dB HL, and the average threshold over 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz \<\= 20 dB HL
  • Prelingual deaf group
  • \- Congenital deafness or onset of deafness before the age of 4 years
  • \- No use of hearing aids or in case of use of conventional hearing aid, a speech perception score below 60% ;Postlingual deaf group
  • \- Onset of deafness after the age of 7 years

Exclusion Criteria

  • Not fulfilling the criteria of the standard 7 Tesla fMRI inclusion list, including the presence of any type of metal in the body, tattoos on the skin and pregnancy.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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