Peripheral Vision Training Study
Purpose
This study will train participants (young people and older adults) to do a visual task, and will assess whether this results in changes in behavioral assessments. In some participants, we will be also testing whether MRI measures (cortical thickness, functional connectivity) change with training.
Conditions
- Visual Impairment
- Cognitive Change
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Between 18 Years and 89 Years
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- Right handed individuals - Aged 19-89 - In good health as self-reported or visual impairments due to partial vision loss - Normal or corrected-to-normal vision with contact lenses or visual impairments due to partial vision loss
Exclusion Criteria
- Younger than 18 or older than 89 - Being hearing-impaired - Not in good health except due to partial vision loss - Having a previous serious head injury or neurological disorder, or loss of consciousness for more than 2 minutes - Having hallucinations or delusions - Having a current or past history of a substance abuse disorder - Currently taking psychoactive medications
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Basic Science
- Masking
- None (Open Label)
- Masking Description
- Computerized training for all groups. This is a pilot study.
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
|---|---|---|
|
Experimental Training |
Computerized vision training |
|
|
Sham Comparator Control |
Sham |
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More Details
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham