The efficacy of playing the Ninntendo DS games on cognitive functions of healthy elderly: a randomaized controlled trial.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Healthy elderly
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000002825
- Lead Sponsor
- Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 32
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1.Person whom has metal in the body(ex. a pacemaker, an aneurysm clip) 2.Person without medical history of the cerebral nerve disease 3.Person without medical history such as high blood pressure, the diabetes
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1)Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) 2)Frontal assessment battery at bedside (FAB) 3)Trail Making Test-B (TMT-B) 4)Digit cancellation task (D-CAT 5)digit span forward (DS-F) 6)digit span backward (DS-B) 7)Digit Symbol Coding (Cd) 8)Symbol Search (SS)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1)Brain structure measured by MRI