Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Visual Training
Status unconfirmed · Phase 1/Phase 2
Conditions studied: Healthy
In brief
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the learnability of a 3 week, 40 minutes per day, 5 day per week, computer-based visual training exercise by healthy mature individuals undergoing normal aging.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00526942
- Run by
- Posit Science Corporation
- People needed
- 54
- Starts
- 2007-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2007-09-11
Who can join
Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age 60 or older at the time of consent.
- Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) score of 26 or higher.
- Adequate visual capacity adequate to read.
- Adequate hearing capacity.
- Willing and able to commit to study time requirements.
You may not qualify if…
- Self-report of current diagnosis or history of major neurological illness.
- Self-report of current diagnosis or history of psychiatric illness. c. History of psychiatric hospitalization in the past twenty years.
- History of a stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA) or traumatic brain injury within the past year; or lifetime history of stroke, TIA, or traumatic brain injury that has left residual expressive or receptive language problems. - Fibromyalgia or symptoms of severe tremor.
- Self-report of current substance abuse, including alcoholism.
- Current useof medications with substantial CNS effects. Inappropriate behaviors during screening or baseline visits.
- Inability to perform behavioral evaluations.
- Participant is not capable of giving informed consent or unable to comprehend and/or follow instructions.
- Participant is enrolled in a concurrent clinical study that could affect the outcome of this study.
Where it is running
- Posit Science Corporation — San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States (enrolling)
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