Tracking Touch Signals From Finger to Brain in Adults With and Without Stroke
Studies how touch signals travel from the finger to the brain in adults with stroke.
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Registry title: Tracking a Tactile Signal Along the Nervous System
Key facts
- Where
- Blacksburg, United StatesSee the site
Where in United States
- Virginia TechBlacksburg, United StatesTaking people
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Trial details
- Who runs it
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Trial code
- NCT06231810
- Record updated
- 17 June 2026
- Original description
Quantify the flow of a tactile signal from the stimulus at the finger at the peripheral nervous system (PNS), to the central nervous system (CNS), and to cognitive perception at the brain in young adults (Aim 1) and individuals with and without stroke (Aim 2).Read full original descriptionShow less
Tracking a Tactile Signal Along the Nervous System
Quantify the flow of a tactile signal from the stimulus at the finger at the peripheral nervous system (PNS), to the central nervous system (CNS), and to cognitive perception at the brain in young adults (Aim 1) and individuals with and without stroke (Aim 2).
Inclusion: -right-hand dominance for participants who are neurotypical; For Aim 1:; -age range of 18-23; For Aim 2:; participants who are neurotypical will be a similar age to the participants with stroke; participants who are neurotypical will have no musculoskeletal and neurological conditions; participants with stroke will have a single stroke incident resulting in a unilateral lesion (ischemic and hemorrhagic); participants with stroke will be in the chronic phase (>1 year from stroke onset); participants with stroke will have an onset of stroke after the age of 18; participants with stroke who meet the criteria of having the capacity to provide informed consent, regardless of aphasia.
Exclusion: participants with stroke who have used antispastic injections in the past six months; participants with stroke who have a lesion in the brainstem and/or cerebellum; participants with stroke who have a stroke arising due to brain surgery; participants with stroke who have hemineglect; minors; pregnant women; prisoners; adults not capable of consenting on their own behalf; For Aim 2:.