Auditory Beat Stimulation and Behavioural Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia
Anxiety, bvFTD
About this trial
This is an interventional basic science trial for Anxiety
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Inclusion criteria are the international criteria of a behavioral variant of FTD according to Raskovsky and colleagues (2011), which include: A. Early disinhibition B. Early apathy or passivity C. Early loss of compassion or empathy D. speech or motor stereotypies E. Hyperorality and altered eating habits F. Neuropsychological profile with executive function deficits with relatively unchanged memory and visuospatial performance G. Disruption of daily living skills H. Matching imaging (cMRI, cCT, PET). Exclusion Criteria: Exclusion criteria include the presence of a non-neurodegenerative psychiatric disease that can better explain the behavioral abnormalities or evidence of biomarkers with clear evidence of Alzheimer's disease or other neurodegenerative process
Sites / Locations
- Juergen Fell
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Sham Comparator
Monaural beat stimulation
Control
20 min sound recording of 8Hz monaural beat
20 min sound recording of 220Hz pure sine wave