CompletedNot Applicable

Rehabilitation of Facial Emotion Recognition in Alzheimer's Disease

8 participantsStarted 2019-03-01

Plain-language summary

This study aims to evaluate impacts of an emotion recognition rehabilitation program, named Training of Affect Recognition, on social cognition abilities in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition, we hypothesis that the effect of this rehabilitation will also evolve gaze strategies, behavioral disorders, and the caregiver's burden.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * AD diagnosed according to l'IWG-2 (Dubois \& al. 2014) criteria, * Mini-Mental State (MMS-E) ≥15 * Subject accompanied by a family caregiver and whose participation in a cognitive stimulation workshop was recommended in Memory Centre of the RAINIER Centre (Princesses Grace Hospital - Monaco) * Written informed consent signed by patient and family caregiver. Exclusion Criteria: * General anaesthesia within 3 months. * Ophthalmological or neurological problems preventing a video-oculography examination. * Oculomotor disorders such as "fixation disorders" or "ocular tracking disorders". * Cognitive disorders of the type: visual agnosia, visuo-spatial disorder, visuo-perceptual disorder or aphasia. * History of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia * History of alcohol abuse.

What they're measuring

Facial emotion recognition (FER) performances

Timeframe: Baseline; Week 6; 1 month post intervention

Affective ToM performances

Timeframe: Baseline; Week 6; 1 month post intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04730440

SponsorCentre Hospitalier Princesse Grace

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2020-03-26

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