Learning Enhancement Through Neurostimulation in Autism
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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
- Enrollment
- 25 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
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
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 30, 2016
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2017
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2017
- Last update posted
- Sep 3, 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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