Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:41 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 1:41 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02736695
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Must be over the age of 18
* Must speak English as your primary language
* Must have an informant who can provide independent evaluation of functioning
* Must present with a chief complaint of progressive impairment of speech/language or changes in behavior
* Must fulfill diagnostic criteria for Primary Progressive Aphasia or Frontotemporal Dementia
Exclusion Criteria:
* Any subject who is mute or whose speech is unintelligible will be excluded
* All subjects with concurrent illnesses that could account for speech and language deficits, such as traumatic brain injury, strokes or developmental syndromes, and subjects meeting criteria for another neurodegenerative disease, such as amnestic Alzheimer's type dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal syndrome will be excluded
* All pregnant, post-partum and breast-feeding women will be excluded
* Subjects will also be excluded if MRI is contraindicated (metal in head, cardiac pace maker, etc.), if there is severe claustrophobia, if there are conditions that may confound brain imaging studies (e.g. structural abnormalities, including subdural hematoma or intracranial neoplasm), or if they are medically unstable or are on medications that might affect brain structure or metabolism,(e.g. chemotherapy).
* Subjects who meet criteria for PPA and have mild behavioral changes, eye movement abnormalities or mild limb apraxia but who do not meet diagnostic criteria for, progressive supranuclear palsy or corticobasal syndrome respectively, will also be excluded.
* Subjects will be excluded from the study if they have any of the following genetic conditions which can increase the chance of cancer: Cowden disease, Lynch syndrome, hypogammaglobulinemia, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and Down's syndrome.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT02736695
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02736695