Status:

COMPLETED

Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial of Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Bordeaux

Collaborating Sponsors:

Merck Serono International SA

ARSEP foundation

Conditions:

Multiple Sclerosis

Cognitive Rehabilitation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-55 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Despite the need for cognitive rehabilitation, there is a paucity of well-designed research studies to investigate treatment approaches or their effectiveness in MS. Most of published studies suffer f...

Detailed Description

: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most frequent disabling neurological disease in young adults. Over the past two decades, cognitive impairment in MS has received increasing interest. Although for a lo...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • patients
  • male or female relapsing remitting or secondary progressive or primary progressive Multiple sclerosis patients according to Polman et al. (2005),
  • age 18-55; disease duration \>6 months and ≤15 years,
  • right handed,
  • Patients will be eligible for randomization (cognitive inclusion criterion) if they performed worse than :
  • 2 scores \<1 standard deviation (SD) on the scores evaluating information processing speed and attention (IPS-Attention) and 1 score \<1DS on other tests assessing executive functions (EF) and working memory (WM).
  • or
  • if they performed worse than 2 scores \<1 SD on the 5 tests of information processing speed, attention and executive function (SDMT, Stroop and TMT battery GREFEX, and divided attention substests (TAP) and 1 score \<1DS on other tests assessing information processing speed, and executive and attention functions (IPS / FAE) and working memory (WM).
  • healthy volunteers
  • male or female,
  • age 18-55 matched for age, gender and education
  • Accepting to participate and signing the informed consent
  • affiliated to french social security

Exclusion

  • existing other neurological or psychiatric disorder, visual, oculomotor, auditory and motor impairments precluding ability to perform computerized tasks and the driving simulator tasks,
  • prior history of addictive behaviour,
  • MS attack in the 2 months preceding the screening,
  • corticosteroid pulse therapy within 2 months preceding screening,
  • severe cognitive deficits or dementia (MMS\<27), moderate to severe visuospatial incapacity (type IV or V at the Rey figure score \< 28), moderate to severe depression (BDI \>27),
  • Participant without driving licence

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

65 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01207856

Start Date

May 1 2011

End Date

February 1 2016

Last Update

February 9 2016

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Service de Neurologie - Pôle des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHU de Bordeaux.

Bordeaux, France, 3300