Computer-based Attention Training in Patients With Acquired Brain Injury

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Injuries

Treatments: Behavioral: N-back; Behavioral: Visual Search

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02399293

hnrc_nback

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigates computer based cognitive rehabilitation and training using the N-back task with a Visual Search task as an active control. The overall purpose is to provide (further) evidence about the efficacy (or lack of efficacy) of the N-back task and to find points of convergence and divergence between patients with acquired brain injury and non-impaired subjects.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• subjects should be able to do both task at level at the time of recruitment
• Informed consent
• (for brain injured patients) training must not interfere with treatment as usual.
• (for brain injured patients) no symptoms which hinder testing and training. I.e. aphasia, deafness, tetraplegia etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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78 participants in 4 patient groups

Patient N-back

Experimental group

Description:

Patients training the N-back task

Treatment:

Behavioral: N-back

Patient Visual Search

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients training the Visual-Search task

Treatment:

Behavioral: Visual Search

Non-impaired N-back

Experimental group

Description:

Non-impaired training the N-back task

Treatment:

Behavioral: N-back

Non-impaired Visual Search

Active Comparator group

Description:

Non-impaired training the Visual-Search task

Treatment:

Behavioral: Visual Search