EVASION: Effect of VisuAl Stimulation on attentION

Summary

The main objective is to compare changes in information processing speed after 30 days of intervention in participants with a dysexecutive mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and receiving either cognitive stimulation by adapted visual exercises (Emeraude® software) or the broadcasting of a television program without cognitive stimulation. Secondary objectives are: * To compare, after 30 days of intervention, in participants with a dysexecutive MCI and receiving either cognitive stimulation by adapted visual exercises (Emeraude® software), or the broadcasting of a television program without cognitive stimulation : * changes in information processing speed of each subtest, * changes in cognitive performance, * changes in executive functions, * changes in walking performance. * To compare the quality of life, after 30 days of intervention, of participants with a dysexecutive MCI and receiving either cognitive stimulation by adapted visual exercises (Emeraude® software) or the broadcasting of a television program without cognitive stimulation. * In the "Intervention" group, to study correlations between changes in information processing speed index and the final level reached for each cognitive stimulation exercise.

Interventions

• Visual cognitive stimulation exercises · PROCEDURE

  Patients included in Intervention group will receive a 30-minute session of complex visual stimuli on a touch screen (3 10-minute exercises : saccade exercises, then pursuit exercises, then matching exercises) every other day for 30 days, with increasing difficulty of the exercises as the sessions progress.

• Broadcast of a television program · PROCEDURE

  Patients included in Comparator group will watch a 30-minute television program (Allô Docteurs) on a touch screen every other day for 30 days.

Published eligibility criteria

Verbatim from the registry. Only the site can decide how these apply to a specific patient.

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥ 60 years
* Diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment of a dysexecutive or multidomain dysexecutive nature, according to Winblad consensus criteria
* Presence of an informal caregiver
* Subject gave and signed informed consent to participate in the study
* Affiliation to a social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of severe depressive symptoms (4-item Geriatric Depression Scale score \> 2)
* Ophthalmological or central pathology that may affect the performance of stimulation exercises
* Regular use of psychotropic drugs that may have an impact on the performance of stimulation exercises, in the opinion of the investigator (benzodiazepines, antidepressants, neuroleptics, hypnotics)
* Use of anticonvulsant drugs
* Existence of a confusional syndrome
* Participation in another simultaneous clinical trial
* Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision
* Person under forced psychiatric care
* Person subject to a legal protection measure
* Person unable to give consent

Sites (1)

• Angers University Hospital, Angers, France · RECRUITING