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Memory Priming in General Anesthesia

NCT03727464 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 102

Last updated 2019-09-06

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Summary

Memory priming under general anesthesia is a phenomenon of incredible interest in the study of consciousness and unconscious cognitive processing, and for clinical practice.

However results from anesthesiological literature are divergent and methodologies vary.

To overcome these limits, the present study aims at better defining the phenomenon of memory priming under general anesthesia, manipulating as experimental variables both the anesthetic drug used and the stimuli primed.

Conditions

  • Unconscious (Psychology)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Abstract priming

Patients were primed with a list of abstract during their general anesthesia

BEHAVIORAL

Concrete priming

Patients were primed with a list of concrete during their general anesthesia

BEHAVIORAL

Controls

Patients did not receive any specific stimulation with words during their general anesthesia

DRUG

Propofol

Propofol general anesthesia

DRUG

Sevoflurane

Sevoflurane general anesthesia

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Milano Bicocca

    collaborator OTHER

  • Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eleonora F Orena, PhD · Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-07
Primary Completion
2016-09-15
Completion
2016-09-15

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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