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UnknownNCT03513133

Rehabilitation of Working Memory and Brain Plasticity After Traumatic Brain Injury: Plastim-MDTC

Rehabilitation of Working Memory After Traumatic Brain Injury: Pilot Study of Brain Plasticity in Multimodal Advanced MRI

Status
Unknown
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20 (estimated)
Sponsor
Centre d'Investigation Clinique et Technologique 805 · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to assess the brain correlates, as assessed with multimodal MRI, of working memory training in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Detailed description

This is a pilot feasibility study. Patients with subacute/chronic (\> 6 months) severe TBI will be included if they suffer from a deficit in working memory. They will receive a specific hierarchical training of working memory (3 sessions per week during three months), according to a previously described methodology. A multimodal MRI will be performed at neuroSpin center (CEA, Orsay, France) before and after cognitive training, including: structural imaging (T1, FLAIR and diffusion tensor imaging, DTI); functional connectivity at rest; and functional activation during a working memory task (n-back). Behavioral and imaging changes after training will be analysed individually and compared to a group of healthy controls matched for age, gender and education.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALworking memory trainingHierarchical cognitive training of the different components of working memory according to Baddeley model; 15 tasks are used addressing: the phonological loop (8 tasks), the visuospatial sketchpad (4 tasks) and the central executive 3 tasks). Task are given in a hierarchical order, according to each individual patient's deficits and improvement.

Timeline

Start date
2017-07-01
Primary completion
2019-07-01
Completion
2019-12-31
First posted
2018-05-01
Last updated
2018-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03513133. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.