Behavioral and Neural Target Engagement for ADHD Executive Working Memory Training
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 130
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Experimental executive working memory training tasks - Reaction Time
研究概览
简要总结
The proposed study will replicate target engagement as assessed in the first phase while also determining if it correlates with clinically meaningful improvements in ADHD dysfunction
详细描述
This proposal is a 3-year clinical trial study replicating an R61 study that targeted brain engagement in 62 ADHD diagnosed adolescents. This study will recruit n=130 adolescents, n=90 ADHD, 40 non-ADHD. The ADHD group will be randomized to a 'sham training' placebo or to train 4 times each week using 4 different EWM exercises that have been combined into the format of a typical cognitive training intervention. Exercise difficulty levels in the active intervention will increase across 5 weeks to continually challenge EWM ability. EWM training will use a novel, remotely-supervised 'at home' computerized training approach that was developed in the Phase I study. This study will attempt to establish a convincing link between the hypothesized targets found in Phase I and ADHD symptom expression. It also will characterize ADHD brain activity or EWM ability changes relative to typical levels seen in the n=40 non-ADHD control group.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Care Provider)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- •Braces, metal or implant devices
- •Brain abnormality, neurological disorder
- •TBI or loss of consciousness>30 minutes
- •Diagnosis of Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder, ASD, PTSD, OCD, SUD, Tourette's Disorder
结局指标
主要结局
Experimental executive working memory training tasks - Reaction Time
时间窗: Change in scores from baseline assessment versus 5 weeks at the conclusion of training
Reaction time (RT) from training tasks of executive working memory. These are experimental, non-published tasks that were tested in this project for the first time in Phase I: Updating (removal then replacement of stimuli by new information to be maintained in working memory), Shifting (refocusing selective attention on different stimuli held concurrent in working memory without altering contents), distractor Filtering (inhibiting irrelevant information) and Suppression (resolution of proactive interference from initial stimuli to be able to respond optimally to control trials). Trial structure and duration are similar across these tasks. The tasks record RT in milliseconds. Data from active experimental conditions will be log-transformed prior to statistical testing.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Functional Brain Scan using a Seimens 3T Skyra.
时间窗: Change in fMRI measurements from baseline assessment versus 5 weeks at the conclusion of training
fMRI measures of brain activation and functional connectivity - Conventional measures of 'brain activation' are estimated using GLM regression models that fit the fMRI BOLD timeseries data to a model of expected hemodynamic change as elicited by fMRI versions of the executive working memory training task trials. Functional connectivity is assessed using a form of cross-correlation analysis that quantifies how much the entire BOLD timeseries in different brain regions are similar to one another. Our a priori treatment target brain regions are the superior frontal sulcus and mid-lateral prefrontal cortex region of interest. Brain activity and functional connectivity specifically to these regions represent the primary outcome measures of the study.
Experimental executive working memory training tasks - Performance Accuracy
时间窗: Change in scores from baseline assessment versus 5 weeks at the conclusion of training
Accuracy (defined as percentage of correct answers from the pool of available items) from training tasks of executive working memory. These are experimental, non-published tasks that were tested in this project for the first time in Phase I: Updating (removal then replacement of stimuli by new information to be maintained in working memory), Shifting (refocusing selective attention on different stimuli held concurrent in working memory without altering contents), distractor Filtering (inhibiting irrelevant information) and Suppression (resolution of proactive interference from initial stimuli to be able to respond optimally to control trials). Trial structure and duration are similar across these tasks. Data from active experimental conditions will be arcsine-transformed prior to statistical testing.
次要结局
- Conners Rating Scales 3rd Edition(Change in scores from baseline assessment versus 5 weeks at the conclusion of training)
- Near/Far transfer tasks(Change in measurements from baseline assessment versus 5 weeks at the conclusion of training.)