Corticomotor Plasticity Predicts Clinical Efficacy of Combined Neuromodulation and Cognitive Training in Alzheimer's Disease

Copyright © 2020 Brem, Di Iorio, Fried, Oliveira-Maia, Marra, Profice, Quaranta, Schilberg, Atkinson, Seligson, Rossini and Pascual-Leone..

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with cognitive training for treatment of cognitive symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). A secondary objective was to analyze associations between brain plasticity and cognitive effects of treatment.

METHODS: In this randomized, sham-controlled, multicenter clinical trial, 34 patients with AD were assigned to three experimental groups receiving 30 daily sessions of combinatory intervention. Participants in the real/real group (n = 16) received 10 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) delivered separately to each of six cortical regions, interleaved with computerized cognitive training. Participants in the sham rTMS group (n = 18) received sham rTMS combined with either real (sham/real group, n = 10) or sham (sham/sham group, n = 8) cognitive training. Effects of treatment on neuropsychological (primary outcome) and neurophysiological function were compared between the 3 treatment groups. These, as well as imaging measures of brain atrophy, were compared at baseline to 14 healthy controls (HC).

RESULTS: At baseline, patients with AD had worse cognition, cerebral atrophy, and TMS measures of cortico-motor reactivity, excitability, and plasticity than HC. The real/real group showed significant cognitive improvement compared to the sham/sham, but not the real/sham group. TMS-induced plasticity at baseline was predictive of post-intervention changes in cognition, and was modified across treatment, in association with changes of cognition.

INTERPRETATION: Combined rTMS and cognitive training may improve the cognitive status of AD patients, with TMS-induced cortical plasticity at baseline serving as predictor of therapeutic outcome for this intervention, and potential mechanism of action.

CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT01504958.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in aging neuroscience - 12(2020) vom: 04., Seite 200

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brem, Anna-Katharine [VerfasserIn]
Di Iorio, Riccardo [VerfasserIn]
Fried, Peter J [VerfasserIn]
Oliveira-Maia, Albino J [VerfasserIn]
Marra, Camillo [VerfasserIn]
Profice, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Quaranta, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Schilberg, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Atkinson, Natasha J [VerfasserIn]
Seligson, Erica E [VerfasserIn]
Rossini, Paolo Maria [VerfasserIn]
Pascual-Leone, Alvaro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alzheimer’s disease
Clinical trial
Cognitive training
Combinatory intervention
Journal Article
Plasticity
Randomized controlled
Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 15.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01504958

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fnagi.2020.00200

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313087539