Quantitative Evaluation of Apathy Close to Real Life Situation by Means of a Multimodal Sensor System Integrated. (ECOCAPTURE)

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior; Apathy; Frontotemporal Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Evaluation of Apathy Close to Real Life Situation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02496312

2015-A0087-42 (Registry Identifier)

C15-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to provide relevant quantitative evaluation of apathy close to real life situation by means of a multimodal sensor system integrated.

Full description

The investigators try to measure the amount of goal-directed behaviour and to detect the pattern of apathy. The main objective of this pilot phase is to select the variables of goal-directed behaviour from the list of metrics providing by the multimodal acquisition system in healthy subjects and patients with frontotemporal dementia.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) according to diagnostic criteria reported by Rascovsky et al. (2011).
• Understanding of the instructions and capacity to realize the cognitive tasks.
• Capacity to read, to understand and to sign legal document of information
• Capacity for informed consent for research, capacity to sign consent
• MMSE score > 20
• Absence of other cerebral pathology.
• Absence of psychiatric disease interfering with the assessment of the tests
• Absence of excessive psychotropic use
• Access to National Healthcare Insurance
• Accompanied with a caregiver

Exclusion criteria

• Excessive psychotropic use
• Incapacity or refusal to realize the experimental tasks
• Subject deprived of freedom by an administrative or court order
• Subject under legal protective measure.
• Incapacity for informed consent for research
• Participation in another biomedical research
• Airway obstruction risk
• Reduction of activity not attributable to another chronic pathological condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

ECOCAPTURE

Experimental group

Description:

Quantitative Evaluation of Apathy Close to Real Life Situation by Means of a Multimodal Sensor System Integrated.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Evaluation of Apathy Close to Real Life Situation