Improving Visual Field Deficits With Noninvasive Brain Stimulation

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

24

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 25, 2022

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2025

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2026

Conditions
Visual Field Defect, PeripheralStrokeVisual ImpairmentHemianopsiaQuadrantanopiaCortical BlindnessVisual Field Defect Homonymous BilateralOccipital Lobe InfarctVisual Fields Hemianopsia
Interventions
DEVICE

transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS)

noninvasive current stimulation for 20 - 30 minutes stimulation on visual cortex (electrodes on surface of scalp, positioned O1 / O2 on EEG cap). 1mA max amplitude noise stimulation, frequencies from 100 Hz - 640 Hz.

BEHAVIORAL

Computer Based Visual Training

Dynamic visual stimuli are presented on specific locations of the visual field. Participant holds fixation on center of screen during presentation of visual stimuli. Participants will be presented with multiple trials of a motion discrimination task. Training will be performed for 2 weeks (10 consecutive weekdays), 30 minutes each day.

DEVICE

Sham stimulation

20-30 minutes sham stimulation on visual cortex. Participants receive identical setup to real stimulation. The device provides a short ramp on period to simulate the feeling of real stimulation at the start but no current is delivered otherwise.

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Reality Based Visual Training

• Dynamic visual stimuli are presented on specific locations of the visual field. Participant holds fixation on center point within the VR headset during presentation of visual stimuli. Participants will be presented with multiple trials of a motion discrimination task. Training will be performed for 2 weeks (10 consecutive weekdays), 30 minutes each day.

Trial Locations (1)

02215

RECRUITING

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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