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Clinical Trials/DRKS00000780
DRKS00000780
Completed
Phase 2

Memory, Ageing, and the Cholinergic System a combined fMRI and PET study - MACS

niversitätsklinikum Köln0 sites42 target enrollmentMarch 30, 2011

Overview

Phase
Phase 2
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
F06.7
Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Köln
Enrollment
42
Status
Completed
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
March 30, 2011
End Date
May 7, 2014
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Köln

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • healthy older subjects (age 50\-80 years)
  • patients with mild cognitive impairment (\< 2 SD in Verbal learning and memory test, 50\-80 years)
  • both groups:
  • informed consent
  • normal neurological examination
  • normal physical examination of the body including auscultation of the lungs and heart as well as abdominal palpation
  • normal ECG
  • Systolic blood pressure 100\-160 mmHg
  • Diastolic blood pressure 50\-100 mmHg
  • heart frequency 50\-100

Exclusion Criteria

  • instable cardiovascular diseases, neurologic or psychiatric diseases (except for mild cognitive impairment in the MCI group), insable diseases of the lungs, instable gastrointestinal diseases, instable diseases of the kidneys and the urinary tract, thyreotoxicosis, cancer, pregnancy, breast feeding, persons standing in dependency on the sponsor or investigator, placement into an institution due to governmental or judicial order, participation in other interventional studies potentially interfering with the currrent study, existing therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, missing secure measure to prevent pregnancy
  • additionally for experiments with Rivastigmin:
  • –hypersensitivity to rivastigmin or other carbamate derivetives
  • –Asthma bronchiale
  • –liver insufficiency
  • –renal insufficiency
  • –coronary heart disease
  • –cardiac rhythm disturbances like bradycardia, tachycardia, Sick Sinus Syndrome
  • –gastric or duodenal ulces
  • –mechanic constipation or mechanic urinary retention

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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