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Pilot Study to Determine if Working Memory Training Aids Cognitive Functioning in Patients With Parkinson's Disease

NCT01647698 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2023-05-19

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Summary

This project will investigate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an intensive and focused working memory training program for patients in the early stages of PD receiving dopaminergic therapy. The investigators hypothesize that working memory training will be an effective method of improving working memory and related cognitive and behavioural functions in PD patients.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Adaptive working memory training task

The working memory training task will consist of an adaptive working memory computer program that will test and extend patients' working memory capacity. Adaptive refers to the increase in the number of items that the patient is required to remember.

BEHAVIORAL

Non-adaptive working memory training task (i.e. an active control task)

Active control task will consist of a non-adaptive working memory task.

BEHAVIORAL

No training

No training during the experiment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nova Scotia Health Authority

    collaborator OTHER

  • Gail Eskes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gail Eskes, PhD · Dalhousie University

  • Raymond Klein, PhD · Dalhousie University

  • David Westwood, PhD · Dalhousie University

  • Stephanie Jones, PhD · Dalhousie University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-10-31
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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