Mental Strategy Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Reducing Hippocampal Hyperactivity in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Přehled studie
Postavení
Postavení
Podmínky
Podmínky
Intervence / Léčba
Intervence / Léčba
Typ studie
Typ studie
Zápis (Aktuální)
Zápis
Fáze
Fáze
- Nelze použít
Kontakty a umístění
Studijní místa
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Canton of Bern
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Bern, Canton of Bern, Švýcarsko, 3000
- Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern
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Kritéria účasti
Kritéria způsobilosti
Kritéria způsobilosti
Věk způsobilý ke studiu
- Dospělý
- Starší dospělý
Přijímá zdravé dobrovolníky
Popis
Inclusion Criteria:
- diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment
- between 60 - 80 years of age
- fluent in German
- normal or corrected-to-normal vision
- normal or corrected-to-normal hearing
Exclusion Criteria:
- any history of seizures
- current psychotropic medication
- other severe neurological or psychiatric disease
- current or lifetime drug or alcohol abuse
- severe brain damage other than atrophy in the hippocampus or the medial temporal lobe
- claustrophobia
- magnetisable implants (e.g., cardiac pacemakers, brain stimulator)
Studijní plán
Jak je studie koncipována?
Detaily designu
- Primární účel: Léčba
- Přidělení: Randomizované
- Intervenční model: Paralelní přiřazení
- Maskování: Žádné (otevřený štítek)
Počet zbraní
Zbraně a zásahy
Skupina účastníků / ArmSkupina účastníků / Arm |
Intervence / LéčbaIntervence / Léčba |
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Experimentální: Group A: 15 participants will be assigned to group A
Group A will attend 6 mental strategy trainings and will start the training after the first assessment.
The training content is identical for all groups.
The groups differ only in the number of training sessions and in the timing of the intervention onset (i.e., after the first assessment or after three assessment time points).
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Trainings will be done in groups of up to five people.
During training, participants will be presented with an implicit pattern separation task (i.e., for which no response is necessary).
At the same time, they will apply mental strategies that were beneficial for hippocampal activity reduction in our previous study.
We will use four different mental strategies ("Imagination", "Bodily Perception", "Active Thinking" and "Visual Perception") during each of the training sessions.
During imagination participants will need to vividly imagine a scene that exerts a calming effect on them.
During "bodily perception" participants will be instruced to focus on their feet or hands while slowly contracting and relaxing them.
During active thinking they will perform cognitive tasks such as reciting the alphabet or counting.
During visual perception they will focus on a specific part of the presented image.
The order of the mental strategies is similar for all participants and all trainings.
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Experimentální: Group B: 15 participants will be assigned to group B
Group B will attend 4 mental strategy trainings and will start with the training after the first assessment.
The training content is identical for all groups.
The groups differ only in the number of training sessions and in the timing of the intervention onset (i.e., after the first assessment or after three assessment time points).
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Trainings will be done in groups of up to five people.
During training, participants will be presented with an implicit pattern separation task (i.e., for which no response is necessary).
At the same time, they will apply mental strategies that were beneficial for hippocampal activity reduction in our previous study.
We will use four different mental strategies ("Imagination", "Bodily Perception", "Active Thinking" and "Visual Perception") during each of the training sessions.
During imagination participants will need to vividly imagine a scene that exerts a calming effect on them.
During "bodily perception" participants will be instruced to focus on their feet or hands while slowly contracting and relaxing them.
During active thinking they will perform cognitive tasks such as reciting the alphabet or counting.
During visual perception they will focus on a specific part of the presented image.
The order of the mental strategies is similar for all participants and all trainings.
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Experimentální: Group C: 15 participants will be assigned to group C
Group C will attend 2 mental strategy trainings and will start with the training after the first assessment.
The training content is identical for all groups.
The groups differ only in the number of training sessions and in the timing of the intervention onset (i.e., after the first assessment or after three assessment time points).
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Trainings will be done in groups of up to five people.
During training, participants will be presented with an implicit pattern separation task (i.e., for which no response is necessary).
At the same time, they will apply mental strategies that were beneficial for hippocampal activity reduction in our previous study.
We will use four different mental strategies ("Imagination", "Bodily Perception", "Active Thinking" and "Visual Perception") during each of the training sessions.
During imagination participants will need to vividly imagine a scene that exerts a calming effect on them.
During "bodily perception" participants will be instruced to focus on their feet or hands while slowly contracting and relaxing them.
During active thinking they will perform cognitive tasks such as reciting the alphabet or counting.
During visual perception they will focus on a specific part of the presented image.
The order of the mental strategies is similar for all participants and all trainings.
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Aktivní komparátor: Group D: 10 participants will be assigned to group D
Group D will attend 2 mental strategy trainings and will start with the training after the third assessment.
The training content is identical for all groups.
The groups differ only in the number of training sessions and in the timing of the intervention onset (i.e., after the first assessment or after three assessment time points).
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Trainings will be done in groups of up to five people.
During training, participants will be presented with an implicit pattern separation task (i.e., for which no response is necessary).
At the same time, they will apply mental strategies that were beneficial for hippocampal activity reduction in our previous study.
We will use four different mental strategies ("Imagination", "Bodily Perception", "Active Thinking" and "Visual Perception") during each of the training sessions.
During imagination participants will need to vividly imagine a scene that exerts a calming effect on them.
During "bodily perception" participants will be instruced to focus on their feet or hands while slowly contracting and relaxing them.
During active thinking they will perform cognitive tasks such as reciting the alphabet or counting.
During visual perception they will focus on a specific part of the presented image.
The order of the mental strategies is similar for all participants and all trainings.
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Co je měření studie?
Primární výstupní opatření
Primární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Popis opatření |
Časové okno |
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Hippocampal activity during the pattern separation task
Časové okno: We assess hippocampal activity 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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In each 4 fMRI sessions, we apply a pattern separation task (i.e., the mnemonic similarity test, MST).
Participants need to answer to specific trial types.
These are stimuli of everyday objects and the participants have to identify if a stimulus is "new" (they have not seen it before), "old" (exactly the same stimulus has been presented already) or "similar" (a stimulus has been shown before but was different in shape or colour).
During each task, we will evaluate their hippocampal activity using similar "lure" trials that rely on pattern separation.
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We assess hippocampal activity 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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Sekundární výstupní opatření
Sekundární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Popis opatření |
Časové okno |
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Pattern completion errors
Časové okno: We will assess pattern completion errors 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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In each 4 fMRI sessions, we apply a pattern separation task (i.e., the mnemonic similarity test, MST).
Participants need to answer to specific trial types.
These are stimuli of everyday objects and the participants have to identify if a stimulus is "new" (they have not seen it before), "old" (exactly the same stimulus has been presented already) or "similar" (a stimulus has been shown before but was different in shape or colour).
Pattern completion errors refer to the mis-identification of similar objects as being old.
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We will assess pattern completion errors 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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Pattern Separation success
Časové okno: We will asssess pattern separation success 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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Correct pattern separation occurs when a participant correctly identifies a similar objects as "similar" in the pattern separation task.
Compared to the LDI, here we only focus only on correct responses without considering potential response biases.
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We will asssess pattern separation success 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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Lure Discrimination Index
Časové okno: We will evaluate the LDI 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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In each 4 fMRI sessions, participants will perform a pattern separation task (i.e., mnemonic similarity test, MST).
A widely used metric to report performance in this task is the lure discrimination index (LDI) which is used to determine pattern separation abilities while accounting for response biases
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We will evaluate the LDI 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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Spolupracovníci a vyšetřovatelé
Sponzor
Sponzor
Vyšetřovatelé
Vyšetřovatelé
- Vrchní vyšetřovatel: Jessica Peter, Professor, University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Termíny studijních záznamů
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Dokončení studie
Termíny zápisu do studia
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Aktualizace studijních záznamů
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Odeslaná poslední aktualizace, která splnila kritéria kontroly kvality
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