New Helmet-Style brain scanner could revolutionize concussion detection
NCT ID NCT06244472
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing a new, more comfortable brain scanner that uses special sensors to measure brain activity. Researchers will compare this new device to a standard scanner in 80 healthy volunteers and athletes who have had a mild concussion. The goal is to see if the new scanner can detect brain signals just as well, which could lead to better, more portable brain imaging in the future.
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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 80 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Healthy volunteers: Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 to 70 * Strongly motivated to participate to the study * Signed informed consent for the study Exclusion Criteria: * major cognitive deficit and unable to understand the instructions * previous neurology or psychiatric or sleep pathologies * Woman with a positive pregnancy test during the inclusion. * Subjects under guardianship, curatorship or safeguard of justice protection * Subjects deprived of their liberty * Subject not affiliated to a social security system. * Subject's refusal to be informed if an abnormality is detected during MEG and MRI scans * Subject with common contraindications to MEG and MRI examination : * Metal in the body incompatible with performance of the examination (pacemaker, implantable pump, neurostimulator, cochlear implant, auditory prothesis, metalic prothesis, intracerebral clip, implantable defibrillator, any metalic parts in the brain or upper part of the body, ventriculoperitoneal valve, dental appliance or steel pivot for root canal, ferromagnetic foreign body in the upper part of the upper part of the body) * Claustrophobia Subjects who suffered a mild concussion: Inclusion Criteria: * Male aged from 18 to 40 * Strongly motivated to participate to the study * Signed informed consent for the study * Mild concussion confirmed by the club doctor and a neurologist neurologist in the three weeks preceding the experiment Exclusion Criteria: * major cognitive deficit and unability to understand the instructions * previous neurology or psychiatric or sleep pathologies except mild concussion * Woman with a positive pregnancy test during the inclusion. * Subjects under guardianship, curatorship or safeguard of justice protection * Subjects deprived of their liberty * Subject not affiliated to a social security system * Subject's refusal to be informed if an abnormality is detected during MEG and MRI scans * Subject with common contraindications to MEG and MRI examination : * Metal in the body incompatible with performance of the examination (pacemaker, implantable pump, neurostimulator, cochlear implant, auditory prothesis, metalic prothesis, intracerebral clip, implantable defibrillator, any metalic parts in the brain or upper part of the body, ventriculoperitoneal valve, dental appliance or steel pivot for root canal, ferromagnetic foreign body in the upper part of the upper part of the body) * Claustrophobia
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Orthopédique Paul Santy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLyon, 69008, France
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Service de Neurologie Fonctionnelle et d'Epileptologie, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon
RECRUITINGBron, 69677, France
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