Computerized working memory training in Parkinson´s patients without cognitive impairment: cognitive and neural effects and prediction of the training outcome

Not Applicable

• Conditions: G20; Parkinson disease

• Registration Number: DRKS00009379
• Lead Sponsor: Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie| Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies Uniklinik Köln

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-12-13
• Study Completion: 2018-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 76

Inclusion Criteria

Diagnosis of an ideopathic Parkinson´s syndrome, no cognitve impairment (MDS-Level II-PD-MCI criteria), no dementia, very good German language skills, unimpaired or sufficiently corrected vision and/or hearing ability, signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

other actual or past neurological disease (besides Parkinson´s disease), deep brain stimulation, actual psychiatric disease, severe depressive symptomes, physical handicap that permits the usage of a computer, diagnosis of a life-threatening disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
performance at pre, post and 14-weeks follow-up test within the following domains: verbal working memory (digit span forward (Wechsler Memory Scale-revised; WMS-R), digit span backward (Wechsler Memory Scale-revised; WMS-R), verbal n-Back (Vienna test system; WTS)) and visual working memory (Corsi-Block Tapping forward (Vienna test system; WTS), Corsi-Block Tapping backward (Vienna test system; WTS), nonverbal n-Back (Vienna test system; WTS))