NL-OMON55779
Completed
Not Applicable
earning to preserve: foreign language training as a cognitive *vaccine* to prevent old-age disorders? - FlexLang
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Not specified
- Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
- Enrollment
- 113
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
No summary available.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •1\) between 65 years and 80 years of age;
- •2\) native Dutch speakers;
- •3\) functionally monolingual. That is, they should not use any language other
- •than Dutch in their daily lives (they use the Dutch language 80% of the time);
- •4\) not multilingual, although they may have learned additional (foreign)
- •languages in their lives;
- •5\) proficiency in the English language is below B1 level;
- •6\) a current experience of self\-perceived or informant\-perceived persistent
- •decline in cognitive capacity in comparison to his/her previously normal
- •cognitive status which is unrelated to an acute event (as measured with the
Exclusion Criteria
- •1\) a diagnosis of MCI, prodromal AD or dementia according to DMS\-V criteria;
- •2\) having extensive experience playing a musical instrument for the last 20
- •3\) a psychiatric or neurologic disease (apart from AD), medical disorder,
- •medication, or substance use;
- •4\) any current DSM\-V disorders according to the SCID\-I interview or a past
- •diagnosis in the last 10 years;
- •5\) any current or past alcohol or drug dependency or abuse;
- •6\) daily use of benzodiazepines;
- •7\) neurological problem (including epilepsy, dementia, neuromuscular disorders);
- •8\) hearing or visual impairments other than correctable to normal by hearing
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
Similar Trials
Completed
Not Applicable
earning to preserve: foreign language training as a cognitive ‘vaccine’ to prevent old-age disorders?subjective cognitive decline, depression,NL-OMON24412niversity Medical Center Groningen113
Completed
Not Applicable
ong-Term Effects of Intensive Language Training for ataxic dysarthriacortical cerebellar atrophy CCA multiple system atrophy MSAJPRN-UMIN000046272ational Center of Neurology and Psychiatry31
Completed
Not Applicable
Developing the teaching of reading in modern foreign languages: can instruction in phonics and reading strategies improve students’ progress and motivation in Key Stage 3?Foreign language readingNot ApplicableISRCTN11400585uffield Foundation1,080
Not yet recruiting
Phase 3
Reach out and Read Literacy Programme for infants during immunization visits to prevent language delay.CTRI/2024/01/061376KAHER Instiute of physiotherapy
Completed
Not Applicable
Sequential second language learning and academic adjustment in hearing impaired adolescents with cochlear implantsNL-OMON45218niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen351