Brain Enhancement Training Towards Elders Resilience to Aging



Status:Recruiting
Healthy:No
Age Range:65 - Any
Updated:6/16/2018
Start Date:June 1, 2018
End Date:October 2020
Contact:Sarah-Jane Kim, MA
Email:sarah-jane.kim@positscience.com
Phone:415-539-3130

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Brain Enhancement Training Towards Elders Resilience to Aging (BETTER Aging)

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of the experimental treatment
(cognitive training) further outlined in this protocol on the cognitive abilities (e.g.,
processing speed, attention, working memory, and executive function), brain functionality,
functional status and quality of life of individuals with age-related cognitive decline as
compared to a computer-based active control.


Inclusion Criteria:

- Participant must be a fluent English speaker

- Participant must have adequate sensorimotor capacity to perform the program, including
visual capacity adequate to read from a computer screen at a normal viewing distance,
auditory capacity adequate to understand normal speech, and motor capacity adequate to
control a computer mouse

- Participant must not have evidence of dementia as indicated by the Montreal Cognitive
Assessment (MoCA)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participant with any medical illnesses, injuries or conditions predisposing to
imminent functional and/or cognitive decline

- Participant requiring caregiver assistance in dressing/personal hygiene

- Participant with severe visual deficits (including visual neglect, partial field cuts,
anopias) and/or severe hearing deficit that would prevent use of the computerized
treatment program

- Participant with recent participation of computer-delivered cognitive training within
2 years of consent

- Participant with claustrophobia or any other contraindication to MRI scanning

- Participant with inability to complete a 1-hour MRI

- Pregnant women

- Participant with any implanted devices above the waist (e.g., cardiac pacemaker or
auto-defibrillators, neural pacemaker, aneurysm clips, cochlear implant, metallic
bodies in the eye or central nervous system, any form of wires or metal devices that
may concentrate radio frequency fields)

- Participants with active suicidal ideations as measured by the Columbia-Suicide
Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
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101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
(319) 335-3500
Principal Investigator: Michelle Voss, PhD
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Dallas, Texas 75235
Principal Investigator: Chandramallika Basak, PhD
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