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Computer-based Attention Training in Patients With Acquired Brain Injury

NCT02399293 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2015-03-26

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Summary

Investigates computer based cognitive rehabilitation and training using the N-back task with a Visual Search task as an active control. The overall purpose is to provide (further) evidence about the efficacy (or lack of efficacy) of the N-back task and to find points of convergence and divergence between patients with acquired brain injury and non-impaired subjects.

Conditions

  • Brain Injuries

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

N-back

The N-back task required patients to monitor a continuous sequence of stimuli (in this experiment audio and visual stimuli). Press a button if the current stimulus is the same as that shown N back in the sequence. N increases if performance is good and decreases if performance is poor. Subjects train for 20 days, 12 blocks a day, 20+N trials per block. That is 240 blocks in total. A minimum of 10 blocks per day counts as a successfully trained day.

BEHAVIORAL

Visual Search

The Visual Search task consists of a NxN array of shapes. Press the button if a certain target stimulus is present in this array. N increases if performance is good and decreases if performance is poor. Subjects train for 20 days, 12 blocks a day, 20+N trials per block. That is 240 blocks in total. A minimum of 10 blocks per day counts as a successfully trained day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Regionshospitalet Hammel Neurocenter

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jonas Lindeløv, M.Sc. · Hammel Neurocenter

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-09-30

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