Eye Movement Recordings in the Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury

Completed

Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury

In brief

The study investigates whether the use of eye movement recordings can provide a reliable diagnostic of previously undiagnosed mild traumatic brain injury (blast and impact) in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom (OIF/OEF) veterans.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00875589

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

26

Starts

2011-04-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• OIF/OEF Veteran;
• Neuropsych diagnosis of MTBI

You may not qualify if…

• chronically abusing alcohol or illicit drugs.
• uncorrected vision prevents subject from effectively viewing the stimuli, unless they can wear contact lenses during the recording session.
• inability to make normal eye movements (i.e.: saccades, smooth pursuit) required by study paradigms. Note: Deficit can be caused by taking medications that can potentially affect eye movements or any neurological condition that can interfere with making normal eye movement.
• psychological or psychiatric conditions that preclude sustained concentration or ability to perform the tasks.

Where it is running

• Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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