Zapping the brain to restore speech in lewy body disease?
NCT ID NCT05847985
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at language difficulties in people with Lewy body disease (like Parkinson's or dementia with Lewy bodies) who also have mild cognitive impairment. Researchers will first compare sentence understanding between patients and healthy older adults. Then they will test whether a home-based, noninvasive brain stimulation technique can improve language function. The goal is to find a safe, drug-free way to ease communication problems.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 90 people
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- Started
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May 2023
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
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- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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60 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * right-handedness * Czech as their first language * age (60-80 years) * presence of PD-MCI (Litvan et al. 2012) or MCI-LB (McKeith et al. 2020) for LBD subjects Exclusion Criteria: * cardio pacemaker * any MRI-incompatible metal in the body * epilepsy * any diagnosed psychiatric disorders * alcohol/drug abuse * for HC group the presence of LBDs or other neurodegenerative disorder or MCI/dementia
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Masaryk University CEITEC
RECRUITINGBrno, 62500, Czechia
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