Recruiting
Phase 1
Phase 2

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Posit Science Corporation

Code:

NCT00526942

Conditions

Healthy

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

SAAGE-designed, visual memory-based cognitive training

Study Details

Brief summary:

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the learnability of a 3 week, 40 minutes per day, 5 day per week, computer-based visual training exercise by healthy mature individuals undergoing normal aging.

Conditions

Healthy

Study ID

NCT00526942

Start date

Aug, 2007

Status verified date

Sep, 2007

Completion date

Aug, 2008

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 60 or older at the time of consent.
  • Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) score of 26 or higher.
  • Adequate visual capacity adequate to read.
  • Adequate hearing capacity.
  • Willing and able to commit to study time requirements.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Self-report of current diagnosis or history of major neurological illness.
  • Self-report of current diagnosis or history of psychiatric illness. c. History of psychiatric hospitalization in the past twenty years.
  • History of a stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA) or traumatic brain injury within the past year; or lifetime history of stroke, TIA, or traumatic brain injury that has left residual expressive or receptive language problems. - Fibromyalgia or symptoms of severe tremor.
  • Self-report of current substance abuse, including alcoholism.
  • Current useof medications with substantial CNS effects. Inappropriate behaviors during screening or baseline visits.
  • Inability to perform behavioral evaluations.
  • Participant is not capable of giving informed consent or unable to comprehend and/or follow instructions.
  • Participant is enrolled in a concurrent clinical study that could affect the outcome of this study.

Study Design

Enrollment

54 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: I

No contact control (NCC)

experimental: II

Computerized, SAAGE-designed, visual memory-based cognitive training

Interventions

SAAGE-designed, visual memory-based cognitive training

Training sessions take 40 minutes per day, five days per week for a total goal of 15, 40-minute sessions.

Primary outcome measure

  • Improvement in visual memory assessment after training or no-contact period. [ Time Frame: 6-8 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Daniel Tinker, BS

4153943100daniel.tinker@positscience.com

Cate Stasio, BA

4153943100cate.stasio@positscience.com

Locations

Posit Science Corporation

Recruiting

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States, 94104

Contacts

Daniel Tinker, BS

415-394-3100daniel.tinker@positscience.com

Cate Stasio, BA

4153943100cate.stasio@positscience.com

Principal Investigator:

Joseph L Hardy, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Posit Science Corporation

Last update posted

Sep 11, 2007

Last verified

Sep, 2007

Keywords

  • ACRD
  • Visual Memory
  • Visual Perception
  • Speed
  • Computerized
  • SAAGE
  • Cognitive Decline

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Posit Science Corporation on 2007-09-11.