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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01195961
Date of registration: 03/09/2010
Primary sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Public title: Facilitating Numerical Processing With Transcranial Stimulation in Developmental Dyscalculia
Scientific title: Facilitating Numerical Processing With Transcranial DC Stimulation in Developmental Dyscalculia
Date of first enrolment: August 2010
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Withdrawn
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01195961
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

- INCLUSION CRITERIA:

We will include healthy volunteers and DD subjects who meet the following criteria:

Age 18 to 50 years

Able to provide informed consent

No history of math difficulties as determined by Dyscalculia Screener examination > upper
50th percentile (healthy volunteers)

Diagnosed with DD and scored < lower 25th percentile on Dyscalculia screening test
(Developmental Dyscalculia subjects)

Edinburgh handedness inventory shows a laterality index (LI) > 75 (dexterity) or LI of
less than -75 (left-handedness)

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

We will exclude healthy volunteers and DD subjects if one of the following conditions
applies:

Unable to perform the tasks due to visual problems

History of seizures or brain tumor

History of alcohol or drug abuse (defined as the use of a drug for a nontherapeutic
effect ) or psychiatric illness such as severe depression

History of brain surgery

Drug treatment acting primarily on the central nervous system, which lowers the seizure
threshold such as antipsychotic drugs (chlorprozamine, clozapine).

Pregnancy



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 50 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Brain Mapping
Cognition Disorder
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
10-N-0194
100194
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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