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Short-term Cognitive Training in Late-life Depression

NCT01748032 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 6

Last updated 2016-04-07

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the alternative uses training (AUT) and word association training (WAT) on cognitive functions and mood symptoms in late-life depression (LLD).

The hypotheses are:

1. post-training cognitive performance will be superior to pre-training cognitive performance
2. post-training depressive symptomatology will be less severe as compared with pre-training clinical severity and
3. AUT group will show better post-training cognitive performance and improved mood symptoms when compared with the WAT group.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive training

20 minutes/day for 5 sequential working days

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baycrest

    collaborator OTHER

  • Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Linda Mah, MD, M.H.Sc. · Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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