Simultaneous Recording of Cognitive and Motor Functions After Stroke (SACSO)

Centre Hospitalier St Anne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05454748

D19-P043

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: To assess whether a cognitively demanding dual-task has greater impact on manual dexterity in chronic stroke patients than in healthy subjects.

Methods: A visuomotor force-tracking task, combining grip force and oculomotor recordings, will be applied in chronic stroke patients with mild-moderate hemiparesis without clinical cognitive impairments and in age-comparable healthy subjects. The dual-task includes avoiding visual distractors and mental addition of numbers. Dual-task effect is calculated as difference in force control accuracy (dual minus single-task) and as difference in saccade rate (addition of numbers minus visual distractors).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 18 years old
• First symptomatic stroke more than 3 months ago
• Box and blocks test score < 52
• Mini Mental State Examination Test > 25

Exclusion criteria

• Psychiatric disease
• Risk of Pregnancy
• History of previous stroke
• Disability that may interfere with the performance of tasks

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthy controls

Stroke patients