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NCT07659691
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Multisensory Rehabilitation of Vision Loss After Cortical Damage

Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

Damage to visual cortex on one side of the brain frequently produces a profound and permanent blindness in contralesional space (hemianopia), a debilitating condition that causes enormous suffering for patients and their families.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - 85 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

30

Start Date

2026-10

Completion Date

2027-12

Last Updated

2026-08-27

Healthy Volunteers

No

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Multisensory Rehabilitation

12 research sessions + clinical visits at the time of the first and last session - In each session, there will be a "training phase" in which subjects will be exposed (and respond) to spatiotemporally congruent pairs of visual-auditory stimuli presented within their blinded field, with occasional probes of unisensory visual stimuli on both sides of space. There will also be a "testing" phase during which they are presented with visual stimuli in virtual reality (VR) to assess multiple aspects of visual function. This "visual battery" consists of innocuous stimuli, e.g., flashes of light or moving bars, presented at intensities consistent with those experienced during daily life. Subjects detect or discriminate the stimuli (e.g., judge whether a stimulus was flashed, or which stimulus is brighter) and report confidence in assessments.

Locations (1)

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States