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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers Results available

Learning Enhancement Through Neurostimulation in Autism

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02998684

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Brief summary

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This study will examine whether brain stimulation paired with social skills learning can help teenage boys with autism learn how to make and keep friends. Brain stimulation can enhance learning in some people. This study involves enrolling in a 14-week training program where teenage boys with autism interact in small groups and learn social skills. During the 14-week program participants will receive active brain stimulation, or non-active stimulation (placebo). Before and after this training, MRI scans will be taken to see whether the training with active brain stimulation made a different in brain activation.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT02998684
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Not applicable
Lead sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina; Other
Enrollment: 25 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Autism

Interventions

Active Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Device
Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Device
PEERS Social Skills Training Behavioral

Device · Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 14 Years to 17 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date: Jul 2016 (Type not available)
Primary completion: Jul 2017 (Actual)
Completion: Jul 2017 (Actual)
Last update posted: Sep 4, 2018

2016 – 2017

United States locations

U.S. sites: 1
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 1

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
Medical Univeristy of South Carolina	Charleston	South Carolina	29425	—

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