Recruiting

Alzheimer's Diagnosis

Sponsor:

VA Boston Healthcare System

Code:

NCT02957227

Conditions

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 50 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

No intervention is part of this study but patients use an EEG device during observational data collection.

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study evaluates the use of an EEG device using Event Related Potentials to help diagnose Alzheimer's Disease in the outpatient clinical setting.

Conditions

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Study ID

NCT02957227

Start date

Jul, 2016

Status verified date

Sep, 2022

Completion date

Jul, 2023

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2023

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 50 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria: Cohort 1: Older adults with memory impairment: must have a physician or primary caregiver report of memory loss and must be between 50 and 100 years old.

cohort 2: Older adults who test normally on neuropsychologic testing and have no history of neurologic disorders.

Exclusion Criteria: Lack of reported memory loss by physician or primary caregiver who does not meet age limits.

Study Design

Enrollment

170 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

1

cohort 1: Older adults with memory impairment

2

cohort 2: Age matched healthy controls

Interventions

No intervention is part of this study but patients use an EEG device during observational data collection.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in memory disorder diagnosis [ Time Frame: 3 years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Katherine Turk, MD

847-364-2139kturk@bu.edu

Locations

VA Boston Healthcare

Recruiting

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States, 02130

Contacts

Katherine Turk

857-364-2139kturk@bu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

VA Boston Healthcare System

Last update posted

Sep 10, 2022

Last verified

Sep, 2022

Keywords

  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Diagnosis

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by VA Boston Healthcare System on 2022-09-10.