Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, 29425, United States
NCT Number: NCT05946616
Sometimes, it is necessary to re-learn a previously learned movement behavior, for example, a bad posture during the golf drive or while playing the piano. Unlearning or relearning an intensively trained behavior is particularly important if the behavior is hampering recovery, for example, in chronic pain or after a stroke. With this pilot study, the brain mechanisms that control the change of pre-existing stable memories of a motor skill will be tested with electroencephalography (EEG). Non-invasive brain stimulation will be used to modulate these brain mechanisms and test if it is possible to change the pre-existing motor memory and the learning of a new motor skill.
This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.
Notify Me18 year and older
All sexes
Interventional
Not applicable
Charleston, South Carolina, 29425, United States
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) combined with behavioral intervention (memory interference).
Inactive (sham) stimulation combined with behavioral intervention (memory interference)
Time frame: before - after one single intervention (1 hour)
Change in performance precision of a previously learned sensorimotor skill
Time frame: before - after one single intervention (1 hour)
Change in EEG-derived markers of brain activation and connectivity
Time frame: before - after one single intervention (24 hour follow-up)
Change in performance precision of a previously learned sensorimotor skill
Time frame: before - after one single intervention (24 hour follow-up)
Change in EEG-derived markers of brain activation and connectivity
Medical University of South Carolina
Other
Probing Mechanisms of Procedural Memory Transformation With Cross-frequency Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (Cf-tACS) as an Avenue to Sculpt Sensorimotor Behavior
Acronym: MEM_MOD
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