The Effect of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation With Cognitive Training on Executive Brain Function in Individuals With Dementia: Protocol for a Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although memory and cognitive declines are associated with normal brain aging, they may also be precursors to dementia.

Objective

We aim to offer a novel approach to prevent or slow the progress of neurodegenerative dementia, or plausibly, improve the cognitive functions of individuals with dementia.

Methods

We will recruit and enroll 75 participants (older than 50 years old with either mild cognitive impairment or probable early or moderate dementia) for this double-blind randomized controlled study to estimate the efficacy of active transcranial alternating current stimulation with cognitive treatment (in comparison with sham transcranial alternating current stimulation). This will be a crossover study; a cycle consists of sham or active treatment for a p

SUBMITTER: Jacobson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9096654 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature