Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Children With Autism and ADHD
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Official title
Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Typically Developing Children
Brief summary
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Background: \- Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a functional imaging technique that can be uses light to study brain function while allowing for movement. To look at blood flow in the brain, NIRS uses a low-power light source with detectors that see how the light changes as it passes through brain tissue. Brain blood flow can indicate which parts of the brain are active during different tasks. Researchers want to study children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and will use NIRS to compare the blood flow in the brain of children with ADHD and ASD with that of typically developing children. Objectives: * To see how well NIRS can detect changes in brain blood flow during tests of thinking and memory in children. * To compare blood flow in the brains of typically developing children and those with ADHD or ASD. Eligibility: \- Children between 4 and 8 years of age with ASD, ADHD, or children with no psychiatric diagnoses. Design: * Participants will be screened for eligibility. Those who are taking stimulant medication for ADHD or ASD will need to stop taking it for 3 days before the study visit. * After participating in a screening assessment, all participants will have one study visit. At this visit, they will have be asked to complete two tasks during a NIRS scan. For both tasks, they will react to images on a computer screen. This visit will last about 2 hours. * This is a testing study only. No blood or other samples will be needed for this study.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01730079
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 42 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 4 Years to 8 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 22, 2012
- Primary completion
- Apr 10, 2017
- Completion
- Apr 10, 2017
- Last update posted
- Oct 17, 2019
2012 – 2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | Bethesda | Maryland | 20892 | — |
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