Pain Effect on Attention Using an Ipad Game App

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Conditions studied: Cognitive Function

In brief

Cognitive performance will be studied over time using an iPad game interface called the nine choice human game (5CH) in normal volunteer subjects before during and after experimentally induced thermal (cold or warm) pain or control (no intervention).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03115788

Run by

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

People needed

12

Starts

2016-05-15

Expected to finish

2025-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-05

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Healthy male and non-pregnant female volunteers between the ages of 18-55.

You may not qualify if…

• Any reported learning disabilities, psychomotor impairment including diagnosis of ADD/ADHD, seizures, debilitating neurologic disorders (muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, etc.), genetic diseases, heart disease, stroke, or memory deficits; anything that would impair the ability to hold the iPAD and perform the computer gaming tasks (i.e. blindness, color blindness, upper extremity dysfunction or pain). Also any history of cold induced impaired circulation, cold agglutinins or Raynaud's or insensitivity to cold.

Where it is running

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

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