Chronic Pain and Brain Activity in Spinal Cord Injury
CompletedNCT01012635
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This study compares five different procedures to see how they affect pain and brain activity. The procedures include neurofeedback, self-hypnosis training, meditation, and two different levels of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Subjects will be compensated for their time.
Study details
- Official title
- Cortical Modulation of Chronic Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Hypnosis
- Other: Meditation
- Other: Neurofeedback training
- Other: Two different levels of tDCS
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
- Collaborators
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Start date
- 2009-12
- Primary completion
- 2011-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 85 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosed with Spinal Cord Injury * 18 years of age or older * Daily pain * At least 12 months since injury * Read speak and understand English Exclusion Criteria: * History of seizure disorder or non-normative brain activity * Presence of traumatic brain injury or significant skull defects * Exhibit moderate to severe cognitive impairment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01012635