Rehabilitation Glasses for the Treatment of Hemispatial Neglect

Phase 1

Completed

• Conditions: Hemispatial Neglect
• Interventions: Device: Computer rehabilitation glasses

• Registration Number: NCT02695927
• Lead Sponsor: Chun Lim

Brief Summary

This project is designed to test a lightweight, portable, computerized pair of glasses that will help reduce some of the cognitive deficits seen in patients who have suffered damage to their right cerebral hemisphere.

Detailed Description

Hemispatial neglect is the inability or failure to attend and respond to the left side of space. Patients suffering right cerebral hemispheric damage from stroke or traumatic brain injury frequently suffer neglect and will ignore all information located in the left side of space. Currently there is no effective rehabilitation technique to treat neglect and many of these patients have severe long-term disability. The goal of this project is to determine whether a prototypical pair of rehabilitation glasses can reduce the symptoms of hemispatial neglect.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-03
• Study First Submitted: 2015-09-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-02-29
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-03-26
• Study Completion: 2018-03-26
• Status Verified: 2018-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-05-07
• Last Update Posted: 2018-05-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 38

Inclusion Criteria

• Presence of hemispatial neglect as defined by Behavioral Inattention Test score of 129 or worse (maximum score 146).

Exclusion Criteria

• Presence of aphasia at time of testing,
• Recent seizures
• Major psychiatric illness
• Prior unrelated neurological disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Acute	Computer rehabilitation glasses	Randomized, controlled study on the benefits of computer rehabilitation glasses on acute sufferers of hemispatial neglect
Chronic	Computer rehabilitation glasses	Crossover study on the benefits of computer rehabilitation glasses on chronic sufferers of hemispatial neglect
Duration	Computer rehabilitation glasses	Study to determine duration of effect of computer rehabilitation glasses
Optimization	Computer rehabilitation glasses	Study to identify optimal operating parameters of computer rehabilitation glasses

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Improvement of patient's hemispatial neglect scores	60 days	Behavioral Inattention Test

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States