Found 6,930 clinical trials
VR-Enhanced Psychoeducation for Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Pilot Study
This pilot study aims to evaluate the integration of virtual reality (VR) with a psychoeducational program for individuals experiencing chronic pain and central sensitization. Chronic pain significantly hampers daily life, and the condition of central sensitization intensifies this challenge by making the pain more acute. Our research is grounded in …
Telehealth Implementation of Brain-Computer Interface
Determine if Telehealth intervention can allow/empower a caregiver (who is untrained) to effectively implement and utilize a Brain-Computer Interface for communication with a participant who is "Locked in" following progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other conditions.
Investigation on the Cortical Communication System
The goal of this clinical trial is to demonstrate communication through a brain implant in people in locked-in state, i.e. people with severe paralysis and communication problems.The main questions it aims to answer are efficient and stable control of Brain-Computer interface (BCI) functions for communication with attempted hand movements and …
Mechanical Insufflation in the Philadelphia Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Cohort (MI-PALS) Study
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn how doing mechanical insufflation (MI) using a mechanical insufflator-exsufflator (MI-E) device affects breathing in early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This will be a single-center, single-arm study of MI in 20 patients with ALS at Penn.Based on prior research, we believe that …
Awareness Detection and Communication in Disorders of Consciousness
STUDY OVERVIEW Brain injury can result in a loss of consciousness or awareness, to varying degrees. Some injuries are mild and cause relatively minor changes in consciousness. However, in severe cases a person can be left in a state where they are "awake" but unaware, which is called unresponsive wakefulness …
Adenosine 2A Receptor Antagonism and AIH in ALS
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effects of a medication, istradefylline, in conjunction with breathing air with reduced oxygen for short periods of time (called acute intermittent hypoxia, or AIH), on breathing. This project will study breathing in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and unaffected, …
Ambulatory Versus Inpatient Initiation of Home Mechanical Ventilation
The purpose of this investigation is to see if outpatient initiation of noninvasive home mechanical ventilation combined with closed telemonitoring and follow-up in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is non-inferior to initiation during admission to the hospitalThe primary hypothesis is that outpatient intiation of noninvasive home mechanical ventilation combined with …
A Phase 1, SAD and MAD Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of FB418
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral doses of FB418 in healthy adult subjects and healthy elderly subjects.
Feasibility of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System in Persons With Tetraplegia (BG-Speech-02)
The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of speech production, and to translate this into medical devices called intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) that will enable people who have lost the ability to speak fluently to communicate via a computer just by trying to speak.
Pilot Study of Open Label Homocysteine Management Therapy in Levodopa-treated Parkinson's Disease
This is a research study investigating elevated homocysteine in the blood of patients with Parkinson's disease who are currently receiving treatment with levodopa. We are evaluating if elevated homocysteine can be corrected using open label B vitamin therapy, as well as the impact of homocysteine levels on cognitive function.
