Status:
COMPLETED
Exploring a Motor Learning Technique Based on the Mirror Motor Neuron System
Lead Sponsor:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Conditions:
Healthy
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-50 years
Brief Summary
Background: * Techniques that teach finger movements are commonly used to explore how humans learn to move. Researchers have designed a simple, new method of learning finger movements, which will be ...
Detailed Description
Objective Humans develop skilled movements such as using a spoon or dancing a waltz through a process known as "motor learning. Harnessing this innate process for its therapeutic potential is an attr...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- INCLUSION CRITERIA:
- Age 18-50 years
- Right-handedness
- EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
- Arthritis or other physically limiting disability, amputation, or significant trauma of either hand
- Professional musician or stenographer
- Persistent neurologic deficit of cognition, movement, or sensation or any history of a central nervous system lesion
- Regular use of any neurotropic or psychotropic medication (e.g., narcotic analgesic, anxiolytic, anti-histamine) or any use within twenty-four hours of the motor learning task.
- Blindness or visual acuity lower than necessary to distinguish visual stimuli on the display monitor
- Impaired decisional capacity or inability to provide informed consent
- Previous experience with a serial reaction time task type of study
- Nasopharyngeal illness, injury, or dysfunction (Phase III only)
- Inability to smell odorized air during screening exam (Phase III only)
- Pregnancy (Phases II and III only)
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 25 2009
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 3 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
76 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00872183
Start Date
March 25 2009
End Date
May 3 2012
Last Update
July 2 2017
Active Locations (1)
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892