Correlation of Laparoscopic Experience and Functional Brain Activation: A PET Scan Study

Northwell Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Function

Treatments: Other: observational

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00860483

GCRC 0201

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the research is to determine how practicing laparoscopic motor tasks affects the functional anatomy of the brain, and to investigate whether there is a correlation between surgical experience and functional brain activition. Additionaly, the investigators plan to use eye-tracking technology to see if the use of this technology can distinguish surgeons of various skill levels. The investigators hope that this study leads to new and effective methods of training surgical residents. All of the data will be collected at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and may be used in future studies, which may or may not be related to urological diseases.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Urology resident or fellow at Long-Island Jewish Hospital
2. Urology attending surgeon with previous laparoscopic experience
3. Medical Student Research Fellow with no previous laparoscopic experience
4. Right hand dominant subjects
5. No known neorologic defect reported by the subject -

Exclusion criteria

1. Left-hand dominant subjects
2. Self-reported neurologic defect reported by the subject -

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

observational

No Intervention group

Description:

This is an observational study. no intervention occurs in subjects. their performance in a laparoscopic trainer is observed and correlated with brain activity

Treatment:

Other: observational