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| Name | Class |
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| St. Baldrick's Foundation | OTHER |
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Survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma (MB) are at-risk for neurocognitive and social deficits, including specific skills such as facial affect recognition which is the ability to recognize the emotional expressions of another person. Because the underlying mechanisms of these deficits are poorly understood, the investigators propose to examine social-cognitive skills (i.e. facial affect recognition) and indices of brain integrity, including an established core neural network of face perception in MB survivors and healthy controls. By comparing these outcomes between survivors of MB and healthy controls, investigators seek to identify the areas of the brain that help individuals recognize emotions.
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Secondary Objective:
Comprehensive social-cognitive and behavioral data will be collected and structural and functional brain imaging will be completed in an attempt to determine if disruptions to brain integrity and function caused by prior treatment of medulloblastoma directly influence social-cognition and behavior in survivors. These outcomes will be compared between survivors and age-, gender-, and race-matched healthy community controls.
Participants who meet eligibility criteria and consent will undergo neurocognitive (intelligence, attention, memory, processing speed, motor, executive function, and visuospatial) and social cognitive evaluations (affect recognition, prosody, social memory, withdrawal/isolation, loneliness, social anxiety, visuospatial, and executive function). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) will be completed during affect identification tasks to assess activation of the core face perception network. Magnetic resonance with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) will be obtained to quantify water diffusion within white matter tracts to assess white matter integrity and its association with functional outcomes.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Medulloblastoma Group | Medulloblastoma survivors, 30 between the ages of 12-20 years and 30 between 21-30 years. | ||
| Control Group | Health comparison group frequency matched on age (30 between the ages of 12-20 years and 30 between 21-30 years), gender and race. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Performance on standardized measures of facial affect recognition (NEPSY-II; Advanced Clinical Solutions Social Cognition) | Mean scores on measures of facial affect recognition will be compared between survivors of medulloblastoma and age, sex, and race matched community controls. | Within two months of participant enrollment |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Performance on tests of visual spatial processing and executive functioning using standardized neurocognitive assessment measures | Means scores on measures of visual spatial processing and executive function will be compared between survivors of medulloblastoma and age, sex, and race matched community controls. | Within two months of participant enrollment |
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Inclusion Criteria - Medulloblastoma Survivors:
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Exclusion Criteria - Medulloblastoma Survivors:
Exclusion Criteria - Controls:
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Medulloblastoma survivors enrolled in the St Jude Lifetime Cohort parent protocol will be recruited to complete comprehensive social-cognitive and neurocognitive evaluations as well as structural and functional brain imaging. Investigators will also recruit a comparison sample of healthy individuals matched on age, sex and race.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Tara M. Brinkman, PhD | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis | Tennessee | 38105 | United States |
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| Label | URL |
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| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | View source |
| Clinical Trials Open at St. Jude | View source |
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| ID | Term |
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| D008527 | Medulloblastoma |
| ID | Term |
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| D005910 | Glioma |
| D018302 | Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial |
| D017599 | Neuroectodermal Tumors |
| D009373 | Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal |
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| Activation of the core face perception network (lateral fusiform gyrus, inferior occipital gyri, superior temporal sulcus) using fMRI analysis | Patterns of brain activation (i.e. hemodynamic responses) will be compared between survivors of medulloblastoma and age, sex, and race matched community controls. | Within six months of participant enrollment |
| White matter integrity between the nodes of the core face perception network (lateral fusiform gyrus, inferior occipital gyri, superior temporal sulcus) using DTI analysis | Indices of white matter integrity (e.g., radial diffusivity, axial diffusivity) will be compared between survivors of medulloblastoma and age, sex, and race matched community controls. | Within six months of participant enrollment |
| D009370 | Neoplasms by Histologic Type |
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
| D018242 | Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive |
| D009375 | Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial |
| D009380 | Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue |