Brain-computer interface games to help thinking skills in young people with brain injury
Tests brain-wave computer games to improve thinking skills in young people after brain injury.
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Registry title: Cognitive Rehabilitation Using Neurofeedback With Brain-computer Interface
Key facts
- Where
- Singapore, SingaporeSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 7 and 21 years old?
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Where in Singapore
- KK Women's and Children's HospitalSingapore, SingaporeTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- KK Women's and Children's Hospital
- Trial code
- NCT07828496
- Record updated
- 18 September 2026
- Original description
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether a Brain-Computer Interface Neurofeedback Training (BCI-NFT) programme can improve cognitive outcomes, and whether electroencephalography (EEG)-based measures can serve as objective markers of cognitive impairment, in children and adolescents aged 7 to 21 years with acquired brain injury (ABI), including traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, encephalitis, brain tumour, or epilepsy.Read full original descriptionShow less
Cognitive Rehabilitation Using Neurofeedback With Brain-computer Interface - CONNECT: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether a Brain-Computer Interface Neurofeedback Training (BCI-NFT) programme can improve cognitive outcomes, and whether electroencephalography (EEG)-based measures can serve as objective markers of cognitive impairment, in children and adolescents aged 7 to 21 years with acquired brain injury (ABI), including traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, encephalitis, brain tumour, or epilepsy.
A group of children and adolescents aged 7 to 21 years without any history of brain injury or epilepsy will also be enrolled to provide normative EEG data for comparison.
The main questions the study aims to answer are:
1. Can EEG-derived measures of sustained attention, relaxation, and selective attention detect and quantify cognitive impairment in children and adolescents following ABI? 2. Does a structured BCI-NFT programme improve cognitive and behavioural outcomes, including attention, memory, and executive function, compared with standard care alone?
Researchers will compare an Intervention Group, who will receive BCI-NFT in addition to standard cognitive rehabilitation, with a Waitlist-Control Group, who will initially receive standard care alone before subsequently crossing over to receive BCI-NFT. This design will allow researchers to determine whether BCI-NFT leads to greater improvements in cognitive and behavioural outcomes compared with standard care alone.
Participants in the main ABI cohort will:
* Complete behavioural assessments using the Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3), including parent and/or teacher reports. * Complete 12 BCI-NFT sessions over a 10-week period. Each session will last approximately 60 minutes. During each session, participants will wear a wireless EEG headset and interact with neurofeedback computer games designed to respond to their sustained attention, selective attention, and response time. * Repeat the BASC-3 behavioural assessments at the end of the study period. * Have undergone a recent neuropsychological assessment within the preceding 2 years and ongoing review by a neuropsychologist.
Participants in the normative EEG cohort, comprising children and adolescents without a history of brain injury or epilepsy, will attend a single study session. During this session, EEG activity will be recorded both at rest and while participants interact with a three-dimensional (3D) computer game. These recordings will provide normative EEG data against which findings from participants with ABI can be compared.
Inclusion: Post acquired brain injury (stroke, encephalitis, brain tumour, traumatic brain injury); Epilepsy.
Exclusion: History of photosensitive seizures; Diagnosis of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder; Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder; Diagnosis of intellectual disability; Presence of psychotic symptoms; Children on methylphenidate; Children who are unable to cooperate with neuropsychological assessment of cognitive function.
Normaitve cohort:; Patients with no history of epilepsy.