Sound and sight training may restore vision after stroke
NCT ID NCT07659691
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 28, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether a training program that pairs sounds with visual cues can help people who have lost part of their vision due to brain damage (cortical blindness). Participants will do 12 sessions where they see and hear stimuli in their blind area, plus virtual reality tests. The goal is to see if this approach improves vision and makes daily tasks easier.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- multisensory rehabilitation (sound and sight training)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this approach could offer a way to improve vision and daily functioning for people with permanent blindness after a stroke or brain injury.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 30 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The training is intensive and may not work for all types of brain damage.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Oct 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 to 85 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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: * Patients will be recruited from the local subject population hospitalized/seen by Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist * diagnosis of stable homonymous hemianopia (\>4 weeks) with absence of hemineglect * a lesion encompassing at least primary visual cortex but sparing parietal cortex, to include lesions caused by an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or post-surgical changes due to an oncologic or non-oncologic tumor * normal or correctable auditory and cognitive function * willingness to participate in the three-month program * ability to perform visual discriminations in their intact field * life expectancy ≥12 months Exclusion Criteria: * diagnosis of an unstable homonymous hemianopia and/or with hemineglect, * Abnormal or uncorrectable auditory and cognitive function * unwillingness to participate in the program * inability to perform the visual testing in their intact field * life expectancy \< 12 months * Any other condition that would compromise their ability to complete the study.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157, United States
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