Our Collaborators
ACTRU is part of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Interdisciplinary Brain Center, a collaboration between other clinical and research programs in the departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Radiology (specifically, the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging), including but not limited to:
-Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging
-Center for Quantitative Health
-Clinical Trials & Network Institute
-Depression and Clinical Research Program
-Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation
-Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program
-Frontotemporal Disorders Unit
-Functional Neurology Research Group
-Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health
-Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
-MGH Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
-MGH Neuroscience Center
-Neurology Clinical Research Institute
-Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Program
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Unit
-Post-traumatic Stress Disorder & Pathophysiology Lab
-Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
-Psychiatric Neuroimaging Division
-Psychiatry Division of Neurotherapeutics
Study Collaborations:
TRAP-AD
Dr. Paolo Cassano and the TRAP-AD study team are investigating an experimental treatment device for amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) in a randomized clinical trial of 8 weeks of transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) or sham (placebo) treatment. The t-PBM treatment stimulates certain parts of the brain that are thought to be affected in memory impairment and may improve cognition in adults with aMCI. This study will be the first to evaluate the dose-dependent effects of t-PBM in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) in a phase I, parallel design, sham-controlled, randomized clinical trial lasting 8 weeks.
If interested in learning more about the study, please contact the study team at pbm@mgh.harvard.edu; (617) 724-8780.