Relationship Between Attention and Emotional Regulation Post-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury

In brief

The purpose of this pilot study is to investigate the relationship between attention and emotional function post-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in an effort to better understand the cognitive mechanisms of emotional processing in patients with TBI, and explore novel treatment strategies to improve emotional regulation using with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate activity in the dysfunctional prefrontal-limbic circuits.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01681589

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

40

Starts

2012-08-01

Expected to finish

2019-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Brain Injury at least 6 months prior
• Family or self-identification of cognitive or emotional difficulties
• Unchanged and stabilized medical treatment in the three weeks prior to the screening

You may not qualify if…

• Any social or medical problem that precludes completion of the protocol.
• Presence of focal motor deficits in the upper extremities.
• Comorbid psychiatric disease such as schizophrenia, or active substance abusers (except nicotine).
• History of craniectomy, active infection, or seizure activity beyond 1 week post-TBI.
• Complicating medical problems such as uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes with signs of neuropathy, and previous neurological illness such as head trauma, prior stroke, epilepsy or demyelinating disease, implanted neuromodulatory or electronic device, metal in head
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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