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Age-related Hearing Loss and Lexical Disorders

NCT03638323 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2026-03-19

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Summary

In France, Alzheimer's disease accounts for 70 to 80% of the causes of neurocognitive disorders, i.e. 600,000 to 800,000 patients. It is a neurodegenerative pathology that causes evolutionary cognitive dysfunction, mainly affecting memory functions. The inability to name familiar objects (lack of the word) is one of the most commonly noted symptoms at an early stage of the disease.

Presbyacusis, or age-related hearing loss, is the most common sensory deficit in the elderly which is manifested socially by a progressive discomfort of verbal communication. Presbyacusis remains underdiagnosed and undertreated: 2/3 of the patients are not using hearing aid.

In recent years, a link between neurocognitive disorders and hearing loss has been shown by investigating general cognition. In this study, the investigators are investigating lexical disorders.

Conditions

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Presbycusis
  • Lexical Syntactic Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Speech therapy

During a 1-hour speech-language consultation, a lack of word evaluation will be conducted and patient will answer a Hearing Difficulty Questionnaire

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marie-Laure Vignaud, Ph.D. · Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-27
Primary Completion
2019-01-31
Completion
2019-01-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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