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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Spontaneous Confabulation: a Replica Study

NCT03183453 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 57

Last updated 2018-05-29

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Summary

Confabulators consistently generate false memories without intention to deceive and with great feeling of rightness. However, there is currently no known effective treatment for them. In order to fill this gap, we performed a neuropsychological treatment in two groups of confabulators: experimental vs. control (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02540772).

Now, we intend to replicate the treatment with a larger sample of confabulators and with other two control groups: non-confabulator patients with brain injury and healthy individuals

Conditions

  • Memory Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Neuropsychological treatment

Participants had to learn some brief material (words, faces, pictures, news), after which they were asked for an immediate and a delayed recall. After both recalls, participants were confronted with feedback about correct responses, non-responses and errors (i.e., confabulations and errors of attribution). This type of feedback worked on: 1) selective attention during the learning phase, training patients to focus on the relevant details of the stimuli; 2) monitoring processes during the retrieval phase, reinforcing the strategic search and training patients to inhibit traces that were irrelevant; and 3) memory control processes after the retrieval phase. The treatment consisted of 9 sessions and lasted for 3 weeks and the participants performed a baseline before and after treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Monica Triviño Mosquera

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Monica Triviño, PhD · San Rafael University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-09-01
Completion
2018-01-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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