Resting State fMRI in Disorders of Consciousness
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Official title
Advanced Resting State fMRI for Clinical Evaluation of Brain Network Integrity in Disorders of Consciousness
Brief summary
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Disorders of consciousness (DoC) remain a major clinical challenge in which high rates of misdiagnosis and difficult prognostication stem from limitations in the ability to access the disordered physiological processes mechanisms of coma in real world clinical settings. There is a great need to develop, validate, and translate to clinical use reliable diagnostics to detect brain recovery potential not evident on neurobehavioral assessment. While resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) has demonstrated potential to improve the diagnostic evaluation of DoC by detecting features of consciousness that are occult at bedside evaluation, this technology has yet to achieve widespread clinical utility. The investigators propose that recent advancements in rs-fMRI capabilities can be combined with streamlined analysis and interpretation approaches to overcome persistent intensive care unit to perform rs-fMRI in patients with prolonged impaired consciousness due to several causes including TBI, cardiac arrest, stroke, seizures, and severe CNS infection. The investigators will determine the optimal methods of data acquisition, analysis and interpretation for predicting recovery of consciousness in these patients. Our expectations are that this approach will produce highly reliable functional connectomic characterization of individual DoC patients, thereby allowing for more accurate outcome prediction. The investigators will additionally investigate the utility of a novel, simplified radiological approach to rs-fMRI data interpretation in comparison to computationally intensive connectomic approaches. This exploratory/developmental project is expected to provide critical data needed to design and appropriately power future R01 studies validating the efficacy of fMRI-based network integrity in the clinical evaluation of DoC.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05463029
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 9 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- 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
- Jul 31, 2022
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2024
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2024
- Last update posted
- Nov 24, 2025
2022 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
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