Auditory Beat Stimulation and Behavioural Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title: Auditory Beat Stimulation and Behavioural Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to examine the effects of auditory beat stimulation on anxiety in patients diagnosed with bvFTD. Main aims are:

• to ascertain whether anxiety in bvFTD patients can be modulated using auditory beat stimulation

• to investigate patterns of anxiety and mind wandering in bvFTD patient population

Patients were asked to complete a number of questionnaires relating to well-being and mind wandering, as well as to listen daily to audio files of beat stimulation.

Clinical Trial Description

Eligible patients and their caregivers were asked to give informed written consent, if they wished to participate after an initial interview. Once enrolled, they began the study by joining a consultation with their consultant neurologist and the study coordinator. Patients each received a handbook to guide them day by day during the course of the study and an mp3 player containing the auditory beat stimulation files. The handbook also contained copies of the questionnaires the patients were asked to complete at different points during the two week study (mind wandering questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Rogers' Happy/ Sad Face Scale). Over the course of two weeks patients completed the questionnaires and listened daily to an auditory beat stimulation or a control recording for 20 mins at home. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Aphasia, Primary Progressive
• Dementia
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• Pick Disease of the Brain

• NCT number: NCT05917886
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University Hospital, Bonn
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2021
• Completion date: September 1, 2021