Nonverbal Communication in Aged People (MAMUS)

University Hospital, Lille

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease

Treatments: Other: Music Balance Board

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04146688

2017_35

2017-A03543-50 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Musical interventions improve the emotional state of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) while having a positive impact on the caregiver's well-being. However, the factors that could be responsible for this positive effect remain unknown. Among these, the sensory-motor synchronization (SMS) of movements to the musical rhythm, frequently observed during musical activities and possible up to the advanced stages of AD, could modulate the emotional state. Several recent studies have shown that rhythmic training (or SMS) influences the organism at the motor, cognitive and social levels while activating the cerebral reward circuit. This action that generates pleasure also facilitates non-verbal emotional expression. However, the conditions that modulate SMS and their relationship to nonverbal communication, emotional, behavioral and cognitive state have not yet been studied in healthy or pathological elderly.

Enrollment: 240 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Cases : Patients with neurodegenerative disease (AD or related disease)

• Native French Language
• Corrected auditory and/or visual deficiency
• Right-handed
• Image rights consent signed by the patient Controls: People with no neuropathological disease
• Native French Language
• Corrected auditory and/or visual deficiency
• Right-handed
• Image rights consent signed by the control

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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240 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients with neurodegenerative disease

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients with neurodegenerative disease (AD or related disease)

Treatment:

Other: Music Balance Board

People with no neuropathological disease

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Music Balance Board