Assessment of Sleep Disturbance in Alzheimer Disease

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Analysis of sleep disturbance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00831298

08-PP-07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to study circadian rhythms, or daily cycles of sleep, wake, and activity. The investigators hope to learn how disturbed sleep in Alzheimer's Disease relates to changes in activity cycles, and how sleep disturbances may affect your daytime alertness.

This project selects patients suffering from memory problems, or voluntary to be in our Control Group. There are three parts to this study: Sleep Diaries, Behavioral Questionnaire, and Activity Recordings

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• alzheimer disease
• MMSE > 20
• over 65 years old

Exclusion criteria

• new psychotropic drug treatment
• patient unable to do neuropsychologic tests

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 1 patient group

1

Other group

Description:

Behavioral Questionnaire Sleep Recordings Genetic analysis

Treatment:

Other: Analysis of sleep disturbance