NCT05616741Completed
Home-based Biofeedback for the Prevention of Migraine
A Randomized, Wait-list Controlled Trial of Daily, Home-based Biofeedback Therapy Using Cerebri for the Prevention of Migraine Attacks in Adults With Episodic Migraine
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test an app-based biofeedback treatment in adults with migraine. The aim of the study is to investigate the safety and effectiveness of biofeedback treatment using the medical device Cerebri, compared to wait-list controls. Participants will perform 10 minutes biofeedback daily, in addition to daily registrations in the headache diary. Wait-list controls will complete daily registrations in the headache diary during the same period. Researchers will compare the reduction in the number of days with migraine from baseline per 28-day period between treatment group and the wait-list group.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 279 (actual)
- First submitted
- 25 Oct 2022
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2023
- Primary completion date
- 19 Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Nordic Brain Tech AS
- Diseases
- Migraine
- NCT number
- NCT05616741
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 279
- From 1 Jan 2023 to the primary completion date, 19 Jun 2024
- 4 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Use of non-pharmacological preventive treatment (meditation, physical therapy, psychotherapy as a headache treatment, acupuncture, etc.), with the exception of stable treatment for other indications than migraine
- Use of concurrent migraine preventive medication, with the exception of stable dose (≥3 months) monotherapy of migraine preventive medication · Subjects who have previously attempted three or more prophylactic pharmacological treatments in adequate doses, without significant clinical effect.
- Alcohol overuse or illicit drug use.
Other illness
- Subjects with secondary headache conditions.
Other
- More than 14 days of headache (all types) per 28-day period.
- Subjects diagnosed with trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and neuralgias.
- Subject with pathologies that inhibit use of the device according to the instructions for use (e.g., blindness, deafness).
- Subjects taking opioids (\>3 days per month) or barbiturates at the time of screening.
- Subject participates in another clinical investigation or has participated in CER-MIG-1.
- Subject who is unlikely to follow Clinical Investigation Plan or where treatment seems futile in the opinion of the Investigator or have demonstrated an inability to sufficiently adhere to headache diary entries (\<70%).
Who the study is looking for
- 18 years of age inclusive or older, at the time of signing the informed consent
- Episodic migraines with or without aura diagnosed by a neurologist/physician per International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd edition (ICHD-3).
- History of at least 4 and up to 14 days of migraines per 28-day period in the 3 months prior to screening (as recalled by the subject). This frequency must be confirmed in the headache diary before randomization to treatment or wait-list control.
- At least three months of experience with smartphone and access to an iOS or Android phone at home.
- Capable of giving signed informed consent as described in Appendix 1 which includes compliance with the requirements and restrictions listed in the informed consent form (ICF) and in this protocol.
- Onset of migraine before age 50 years.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haukeland University Hospital HF Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bergen | Norway | Unknown status |
| Akershus University Hospital HF Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lørenskog | Norway | Unknown status |
| University Hospital of North Norway Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tromsø | Norway | Unknown status |
| St. Olavs hospital HF Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Trondheim | Norway | Unknown status |
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