earning to preserve: foreign language training as a cognitive ‘vaccine’ to prevent old-age disorders?
Completed
- Conditions
- subjective cognitive decline, depression,
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON24412
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 113
Inclusion Criteria
1) between 65 years and 85 years of age;
2) a current experience of self-perceived persistent decline in cognitive capacity in comparison to his/her previously normal cognitive status which is unrelated to an acute event;
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 years;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in cognitive flexibility and its neural underpinnings as a result of the foreign language training
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method health outcomes (depressive symptomatology, emotion regulation, rumination, cognitive decline, quality of life)