TerminatedNot Applicable

Neuropsycholgy and Neuroimaging in Transient Global Amnesia

Stopped: no more patient

60 participantsStarted 2008-09

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this study is to establish a diagnosis in transient global amnesia (TGA) in assessing three episodic memory's abilities (mental simulation throught the future, and the past, the learning of personnal actions i-e the enactment effect). Secondary goal is to describe the neuronal substrates associated to the alteration of theses abilites in TGA.

Who can participate

Age range30 Years – 90 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * All the participants * Minimum of 7 years of education * French native speaker * Healthy subjects : Non pathological Dementia rating scale score * Patients : Clinical diagnosis of TGA according to Hodges and Warlow's criterion Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic neurological disease * Encephalitis * Endocrinal disease * Hepatic disease * Case history of head injury with loss of consciousness of more than one hour * Case history of stroke * Case history of cancer during the five last years except squamous cell carcinomas * Alcoholism or drug addiction * Major psychiatric disorders according the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of -Mental Disorders

What they're measuring

Episodic memory scores

Timeframe: 3 years

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02562560

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Caen

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2015-07

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