NCT07738432Recruiting
Neuro-MoD: Neuroplasticity With Motor Development
Harnessing Early Neuroplasticity in Infants With Perinatal Brain Injury: A Study of Combined Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) Paired With Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is for infants and toddlers between 8 and 24 months old who use one arm and/or hand differently following a perinatal brain injury. This is a time when investigators think they can best help improve how the brain controls movement. Investigators are testing whether the combination of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) with 40 hours of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) can help infants move their weaker arm and hand better and make the brain pathways for movement stronger.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 8 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Jul 2026
- Start date
- Oct 2026
- Primary completion date
- Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT07738432
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 8
- From Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, Jun 2027
- 1 site 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
- Prior CIMT within the past 3 months
Other illness
- Severe motor impairment/quadriplegic involvement.
- Uncontrolled seizure disorders, cardiomyopathy, severe congenital malformations,
- significant sensory impairments, or conditions preventing safe participation in therapy sessions
Other
- GMFCS level V
Who the study is looking for
- Infants aged 8 to 24 months, diagnosed with hemiplegia or with an evident unilateral upper-limb weakness due to perinatal brain injury
- Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level I-IV
- Infants who have not received previous CIMT in the preceding 3 months
- Able to make consecutive appointments for assessments and intervention over 2 weeks, and complete the 3-month follow-up.
Age in the registry: 8 months to 24 months · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin - Madison Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Recruiting |
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