Mild Cognitive Impairment Clinical Trial
Official title:
Diminishing Accelerated Long-term Forgetting in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Study Protocol for a Prospective, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Randomized Controlled Trial
This study is designed as a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized parallel-group study that will be completed at the clinical research facility at St. James' Hospital and at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. A total of 100 amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) patients will receive a (real or control) non-invasive transcutaneous electrical stimulation procedure. Patients will be assigned to one of four groups. One group will receive active stimulation, while the three groups will be control groups. One groups will be receive sham stimulation (inactive control), while a second group will receive active stimulation and local anesthesia and a third group will stimulate a different nerve (active control; same sensation different nerve). The investigators will include three control groups to verify that the effect is real and location specific and cannot be associated to a sensation effect. The investigators have opted to use a parallel-group design as it is unclear what the carry-over effect and/or wash-out period will be for stimulation. To eliminate subjective bias, all patients and the investigator testing the endpoint measures will be blinded to the type of intervention. The primary outcome, i.e. memory recall, will be determined by a word association task recorded immediately after stimulation, 7 days after stimulation, and 28 days after stimulation. The secondary outcomes is neurophysiological changes determined by resting state EEG, which will be assessed immediately before and after stimulation in the first session. The investigators will conduct this study as follows: 1. Screening aMCI patients. 2. Randomly assigning aMCI patients to one of the four groups. 3. Administering one session active stimulation (n = 25) or control (n = 25 in each of three control group) stimulation paired with a word-association task; administered by research assistant. 4. Behavioral assessments after each of the three blocks of studying the word associations and neural measures immediately after the last session of Behavioral assessments (T0). 5. Behavioral assessments at seven (T1) and 28 (T2) days after stimulation.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 100 |
Est. completion date | January 1, 2026 |
Est. primary completion date | March 31, 2025 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 50 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - =50 years - Diagnosis of probable aMCI or mild AD - Montreal Cognitive Assessment between 18-25 - Mini Mental State Examination score >21 - Stable AChl medication >3 months - Adequate visual and auditory acuity - Capacity to understand and sign informed consent Exclusion Criteria: - Any cause of cognitive decline or dementia that is not Alzheimer's disease related including parkinsonism related dementias, vascular dementia, fronto-temporal dementia. - Enrolment in an ongoing investigational medicinal product study - History in the past 2 years of epileptic seizures - Any current major psychiatric disorder - Evidence of brain damage, including significant trauma, stroke, hydrocephalus, intellectual disability, or serious neurological disorder. - History of alcoholism or drug abuse within the last 12 months - Medical devices not eligible for MRI scanning |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Ireland | TCIN | Dublin |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Dublin, Trinity College | Alzheimer's Association |
Ireland,
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Luckey AM, McLeod SL, Robertson IH, To WT, Vanneste S. Greater Occipital Nerve Stimulation Boosts Associative Memory in Older Individuals: A Randomized Trial. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2020 Nov;34(11):1020-1029. doi: 10.1177/1545968320943573. Epub 2020 Sep 23. — View Citation
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Word association task performance immediately after NITEGON/sham | Patients will perform a Swahili-English word association task. Patients will be asked to learn a list of 50 Swahili-English word pairs. In a test phase, patients will be presented with the Swahili word and asked to type the correct English translation. | Patients will be tested immediately after NITESGON/sham (T0) | |
Primary | Word association task performance at 7 days | Patients will be asked to return for a follow-up test 7 days later. The test will be identical to the test phase from T0 timepoint. | 7 days after NITESGON/sham (T1) | |
Primary | Word association task performance at 28 days | Patients will be asked to return for a follow-up test 28 days after NITESGON/sham. The test will be identical to the test phase from T0 timepoint. | 28 days after NITESGON/sham (T2) | |
Secondary | EEG gamma oscillations | Rest-state EEG will be collected immediately before and after NITESGON/sham (T0) and will be correlated with the recall of the word-association task 7 (T1) and 28 (T2) days after NITESGON. | Resting state EEG will be collected immediately before and immediately after NITESGON/sham. |
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