NCT04171856Recruiting
Exploring Motor Learning in Acute Stroke Through Robotics
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The acute phase of stroke is characterized by an enhancement of neural plasticity which supports rapid motor recovery. It is unclear whether acute stroke patients can acquire new motor skills with their affected upper limb. The aims of this research program are: 1. To test the capacity of acute stroke patients (\< 21 days) to learn and retain a complex unimanual motor skill. 2. To explore whether acute stroke to different brain regions (quantified with brain MRI) induces specific deficits in motor skill learning. 3. To compare acute stroke patients with healthy individuals and with chronic stroke patients.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 245 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 12 Nov 2019
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2020
- Primary completion date
- 1 May 2030
- Lead sponsor
- University Hospital of Mont-Godinne
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04171856
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 245
- From 1 Jan 2020 to the primary completion date, 1 May 2030
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- drug/alcohol abuse
- Alcohol / drug addiction
- medical history with a previous stroke/neurological deficit
- drug/alcohol abuse
- drug/alcohol abuse
Other illness
- multiple strokes / dementia / psychiatric condition
- PATIENTS WITH TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA:
- Clinical diagnosis, criteria of Hodge \& Warlow (1990):
- Psychiatric disorders
- psychiatric condition/ dementia
- CHRONIC STROKE PATIENTS:
- multiple strokes / dementia / psychiatric condition
Other
- " classical " contre-indication to MRI (non-MR-compatible pacemaker, pregnancy, non-MR-compatible implanted devices, claustrophoby, etc ...)
- difficulty in understanding or executing commands
- severe aphasia / cognitive deficits interfering with study
- inability to voluntarily move the affected arm (i.e. complete paralysis of the arm)
- Anterograde amnesia observed by a witness
- No alteration of consciousness or loss of identity
- Cognitive dysfunction limited to amnesia
- Lack of focused neurological deficit or argument for a comitiality
- Absence of head trauma
- Symptom resolution within 24 hours
- Possible existence of vegetative symptoms
- Severe aphasia / cognitive deficits interfering with study
- Exclusion criteria related to MRI
- HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS:
- difficulty in understanding or executing commands
- severe aphasia / cognitive deficits interfering with study
- inability to voluntarily move the affected arm (i.e. complete paralysis of the arm)
Who the study is looking for
- acute stroke (\> 21 days)
- aged 18-90 years
- with a stroke lesion on brain imaging
- Transient global amnesia
- 8-90 years old
- Be able to perform 3 consecutive sessions on a rehabilitation robot
- 18-90 years
- chronic stroke (\>6 months)
- aged 18-90 years
- with a stroke lesion on brain imaging
Criteria the registry did not label
- ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS:
Age in the registry: 18 years to 90 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chu Ucl Namur Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yvoir | Belgium | Recruiting |
| University Hospital CHU Dinant Godinne UCL Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yvoir | Belgium | Not yet recruiting |
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