Tracking a Tactile Signal Along the Nervous System
This study is looking at how a touch signal travels through your body, from your finger to your brain. Researchers will apply tactile stimulation (touch) of different strengths to understand how your nervous system processes these signals. The study aims to understand this process in young adults and in people who have had a stroke. To join, you need to be at least 18 years old. For some parts of the study, you'll need to be right-hand dominant and between 18-23 years old. If you've had a stroke, it needs to be a single stroke affecting one side of your body. The main goal is to measure how well you can detect a touch, which will be checked about 30 minutes into your first and only study session. The current status of this study is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 60 participants. It involves applying tactile stimulation.
- What's involved
- You would participate in a single session. Your ability to detect touch will be measured at 30 minutes during this session.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Not specified.
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Tracking a Tactile Signal Along the Nervous System
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06231810
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginiastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Netta Gurari, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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What this trial measures
- Conscious detection threshold30 minutes during the first session of a one session protocol
The magnitude at which a force stimulus applied to the finger can be first consciously detected. Different force levels will be applied, and the participant will indicate which of these forces can be detected. The changes in force applied will be in the units of N.