Pilot Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of Neurofeedback Training in the Improvement of Cognitive Functions of the Elderly With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Pilot Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of Neurofeedback Training in the Improvement of Cognitive Functions of the Elderly With Mild Cognitive Impairment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of SMR neurofeedback training on cognitive performance and electrical brain activity in elderly with cognitive impairment.
Older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are at high risk to progress to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Slowing down effect of dementia by enhancing brain plasticity represents on of the most prominent challenges. Neurofeedback is one of the promising techniques that showed therapeutic efficacy and cognitive improvement in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, stroke. The investigators aim to study the effects of a sensorimotor neurofeedback training protocol (SMR) on cognitive performances in elderly and to assess whether MCI patients change in brain electrical activity after training.
Inclusion Criteria:
Clinical diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment, educational level of 9 years of studies minimum, righthandedness, subjective memory complaint confirmed by an informant, a mini mental Status Examination score > 20, preserve activity of daily living and absence of dementia.
Exclusion Criteria:
Elderly persons who were under guardianship, resident in nursing facilities, neurological disease, psychiatric disease and involved in another cognitive intervention.