Fatigue Clinical Trials

This study will determine the influence of a cognitive task performed during fatiguing contractions. Read Less

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to test sleep and wake-promoting countermeasures to evaluate their effectiveness in helping individuals fall asleep quickly, maintain sleep during a nap, and maintain alertness during waking. Protocol Overview. The proposed study involves two laboratory visits separated by at least one week. Participants are required to complete all procedures in the companion screening and at-home protocol in order to qualify for this laboratory protocol. The at-home protocol involves keeping a regular schedule for 2-3 weeks. Participants will need to maintain a regular schedule with at least 8.5 hours in bed for at least one week prior to the first laboratory visit. They will then continue the at-home protocol, maintaining at least 8.5 hours in bed each night for at least a week before completing the second laboratory visit. There are two interventions that participants will experience during the study, sleep promoting (pink noise) and wake promoting (blue enriched lighting plus a nap). These will be delivered separately and together depending on randomization. Participants will first be randomized to one of three conditions sleep promoting + wake placebo, sleep placebo + wake promoting, or sleep promoting + wake promoting. All participants will complete a sleep placebo + wake placebo condition. The order of the full placebo condition versus the intervention (i.e., lab visit 1 vs. lab visit 2) will be randomized after the condition randomization occurs. Each participant will complete one of the interventions and one placebo for a total of two visits. Read Less

The goal of this observational study is to compare the impact of eccentric resistance training to traditional resistance training on fatigue in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). The primary question this study is asking is the following: is eccentric resistance training more fatiguing than traditional resistance training in persons with MS?. Participants will be asked to come for two sessions for two weeks. In the first week, subjects will undergo a bout of either traditional or eccentric resistance training. The next day they will return to assess their level of fatigue. The following week the subject will return and undergo whatever type of training they did not experience the first week, and it's effects on fatigue will again be assessed. The difference between the subjects level of fatigue for either condition will be compared. Read Less

This research study is being done to investigate if the GH Method exercise program positively affects body composition, improves physical abilities and can improve the overall sense of wellbeing (e.g. depression, PTSD, etc.) in U.S. Veterans. Subjects will be asked to complete 94 total visits (four (4) study testing visits and 90 exercise visits). Enrolled subjects will be tested for fitness, strength, and health risk factors at UIC 4 times and will complete 90 exercise training visits at the GH FITLab over the next 18 months. Subjects will also be asked to complete questionnaires about depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms and thoughts about harming oneself. Read Less

The goal of this proposal is to understand the common and distinct behavioral and neural representations of subjective effort valuation, and how these representations are influenced by fatigue and changes in motivation. It is hypothesized that the brain will use overlapping and distinct neural circuits to represent cognitive and physical effort value, and that fatigue and enhanced motivation will influence the subjective value of effort. Read Less

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID, continues to rage throughout the world with 115,000,000 confirmed cases and over 2,500,000 deaths (as of Mar 3, 2021). This translates to millions of people surviving COVID19 infection. While the lungs are ground zero, COVID tears through organ systems from brain to blood vessels. We are now beginning to see people recover but complain of ongoing problems, including lingering cognitive problems, depression, and anxiety. We have brought together 2 laboratories with complementary techniques including psychological testing and neuroimaging methods togethers with markers in the blood that may signal damage in the brain. A close look at these problems is timely and imperative if we are to understand the pathophysiology of 'COVID brain' and prepare for downstream problems. Read Less

This study aims to advance the scientific understanding and potential future implementation of physical activity promotion by testing the efficacy of a phone-based app for increasing activity in insufficiently active patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Read Less

This will be a single-site, five-arm, parallel group randomized control trial involving patients seeking integrative healthcare. Four different styles of 5-minute, audio-recoded mindfulness practices delivered in the clinic waiting room will be compared with a 5-minute audio-recording about integrative healthcare. A secondary sub-analysis will investigate the most effective mindfulness practice style for patients presenting at the clinic with elevated anxiety, depression, or pain. Read Less

The purpose of the present study is to assess fatigue levels of short-haul pilots during normal operations. The investigators will collect objective and subjective sleep, sleepiness, workload, and performance data from on-duty pilots during short-haul flight operations. Data will be collected during days off prior to the trip start, during flights, and during days off following the flight operations. Read Less