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Mental Strategy Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment

2026年7月14日 更新者:Jessica Peter

Reducing Hippocampal Hyperactivity in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment

This study aims to reduce hippocampal activity in people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aims to examine whether this improves their episodic memory performance. We apply mental strategy trainings with strategies extracted from our previous study that applied real-time fMRI neurofeedback to reduce hippocampal activity. Participants take part in mental strategy trainings 2, 4, or 6 times. At baseline and after each 2 trainings, we assess their hippocampal activity as well as their episodic memory performance using an fMRI pattern separation task. In addition, we will gather blood samples to obtain Apolipoprotein E gene status (ApoE, only once) as well as plasma pTau (pTau217; 4 time-points). ApoE will be included as a covariate in our statistical models. For pTau217, we will calculate the change between each assessment to examine whether the mental strategy training will change the accumulation of pTau217.

調査の概要

研究の種類

介入

入学 (実際)

55

段階

  • 適用できない

連絡先と場所

このセクションには、調査を実施する担当者の連絡先の詳細と、この調査が実施されている場所に関する情報が記載されています。

研究場所

    • Canton of Bern
      • Bern、Canton of Bern、スイス、3000
        • Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern

参加基準

研究者は、適格基準と呼ばれる特定の説明に適合する人を探します。これらの基準のいくつかの例は、人の一般的な健康状態または以前の治療です。

適格基準

就学可能な年齢

  • 大人
  • 高齢者

健康ボランティアの受け入れ

はい

説明

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)

研究計画

このセクションでは、研究がどのように設計され、研究が何を測定しているかなど、研究計画の詳細を提供します。

研究はどのように設計されていますか?

デザインの詳細

  • 主な目的:処理
  • 割り当て:ランダム化
  • 介入モデル:並列代入
  • マスキング:なし(オープンラベル)

武器と介入

参加者グループ / アーム
介入・治療
実験的: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).
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.
実験的: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).
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.
実験的: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).
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.
アクティブコンパレータ: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).
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.

この研究は何を測定していますか?

主要な結果の測定

結果測定
メジャーの説明
時間枠
Hippocampal activity during the pattern separation task
時間枠:We assess hippocampal activity 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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.
We assess hippocampal activity 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).

二次結果の測定

結果測定
メジャーの説明
時間枠
Pattern completion errors
時間枠:We will assess pattern completion errors 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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.
We will assess pattern completion errors 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
Pattern Separation success
時間枠:We will asssess pattern separation success 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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.
We will asssess pattern separation success 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
Lure Discrimination Index
時間枠:We will evaluate the LDI 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).
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
We will evaluate the LDI 4 times from baseline until the last assessment (approximately 10 weeks later).

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  • 主任研究者:Jessica Peter, Professor、University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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主要日程の研究

研究開始 (実際)

2024年2月13日

一次修了 (実際)

2025年10月22日

研究の完了 (実際)

2025年10月22日

試験登録日

最初に提出

2026年7月14日

QC基準を満たした最初の提出物

2026年7月14日

最初の投稿 (実際)

2026年7月22日

学習記録の更新

投稿された最後の更新 (実際)

2026年7月22日

QC基準を満たした最後の更新が送信されました

2026年7月14日

最終確認日

2026年7月1日

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