Pain Perception in Alzheimer's Disease

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dementia Alzheimer Type

Treatments: Behavioral: reaction to pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00192816

2038CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine response to pain in Alzheimer's disease.We plan to study the effect of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls(counterirritation phenomenon)and the autonomic nervous system reaction(reflected by the heart rate) in Alzheimer's disease. The study's hypothesis is that pain perception and autonomic nervous system reaction are altered in Alzheimer's disease.

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 95 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease Must be able to understand a simple pain scale

Exclusion criteria

Neuropathy Psychotropic drugs use -