Impacts of transcranial direct current stimulation on cognitive functions in dependence of the time point of stimulatio
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Healthy volunteers
- Registration Number
- DRKS00010571
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische SoziologieUniversitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
Age: 18-30 years
Righthander
capacity to consent
Exclusion Criteria
• Internistic or neurological disorders and diseases;
• Age <18 or >30;
• IQ < 85;
• Epilepsia or epileptic or febrile seizure;
• Metal implants in head (cochlear implant);
• Heart diseases, pacemakers and defibrillators;
• Traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness;
• Poor compliance;
• Pregnancy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cognitive tasks: <br>EpiTrack (attention and executive functions), VLMT (verbal memory, performance of learning, encoding, recal and recognition), ROCFT (visual construction and memory), mental rotation test (rotating objects in mind), Go/NoGo (attention and predictable appearance of stimuli).<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method n-Back paradigma.<br>The questionnaire (1) on adverse events , after stimuilation.<br>(1)C. Poreisz, K. Boros, A. Antal, W. Paulus, Safety aspects of transcranial direct current stimulation concerning healthy subjects and patients, Brain Res Bull, 72 (2007) 208-214.<br>