Status:

COMPLETED

Developing Process-Specific Verbal Memory Interventions for Veterans With Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Lead Sponsor:

VA Office of Research and Development

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Florida

Conditions:

Traumatic Brain Injury

Eligibility:

All Genders

25-65 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Blast-related and blunt traumatic brain injury is a key priority area of Rehabilitation Research \& Development (RR\&D) and represents a critically important public health problem facing the Veteran p...

Detailed Description

Memory dysfunction can result from impairments along a continuum of information processing, from poor initial acquisition of information during learning to disturbed retrieval of stored memory when it...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Veterans aged 25-65 who are post-deployment,
  • having served in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), or Operation New Dawn (OND),
  • who meet criteria for moderate or severe TBI during deployment,
  • are eligible to participate.
  • Patients will meet the 2007 VA/DoD criteria54,
  • supplemented by data from the VA TBI Identification Semi-Structured Interview55.
  • All patients will have gone through Level I and II assessments with positive findings.
  • Primary inclusion criteria:
  • Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (M-STBI) (blast and blunt),
  • \> 6 months post-injury,
  • no receptive aphasia (impairing ability to comprehend task instructions),
  • able to participate in return visits.

Exclusion

  • Primary exclusion criteria:
  • No MRI contraindications,
  • not claustrophobic,
  • no current or past history of disabling Axis I psychiatric disorders (except for PTSD and depression),
  • no active substance abuse,
  • not pregnant.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 5 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 29 2017

Estimated Enrollment :

8 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02310633

Start Date

January 5 2015

End Date

December 29 2017

Last Update

November 1 2024

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North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL

Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32608