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BrainAgeMS - a Comparative Study of Brain Aging in Healthy and Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Launched by INSEL GRUPPE AG, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BERN · Jan 14, 2024

Trial Information

Current as of October 03, 2024

Not yet recruiting

Keywords

Brain Aging Multiple Sclerosis Neurodegeneration Quantitative Mri

Description

After being informed about the study, healthy controls and patients with multiple sclerosis giving written informed consent will undergo blood examination (for determination of the biological age using the publicly available R-package algorithm BioAge), clinical examination (for motor, cognitive and psychological parameters) as well as an MRI-investigation with chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and T1-relaxometry on a 7 Tesla MRI. Data from the healthy controls will be used to set up a normative brain age data set, that could be used for example to train a model for brain age pre...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

  • Inclusion Criteria:
  • Informed Consent signed by the subject
  • * Group 1: Any healthy individual between 18 and 65 years of age
  • * Group 2: Any individuals with any diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis between 18 and 65 years of age and EDSS ≤6.0.
  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • * Group 1 and 2: Any other neurological disease except primary headaches: insufficient language skills in German or French; pregnancy, lactation, any contraindication for MRI (active implants, passive ferromagnetic implants, passive non-ferromagnetic metallic implants \>4cm in the region covered by the active RF coils, large tattoos inside a region covered by the active radiofrequency (RF) coils, claustrophobia or suspected/known non-compliance), smoking within the last 10 years prior recruitment, any other drug consumption except moderate alcohol intake (less than a standard drink containing 10 grams of alcohol per day) or use of medical cannabis, any previous head trauma (with known/suspected intracranial consequences), Body Mass Index (BMI) \>30, and any other chronic progressive disease.
  • * Specific Criteria for group 1: The calculated biological age (BioAge R Package algorithm) differs by \> +/- 3 years from the chronological age. These patients will not be further invited for a study visit with clinical examination and MRI.
  • * Specific Criteria for group 2: EDSS \> 6.0 as this impacts physical testing; clinical relapse within the last 6 months

About Sponsor

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, /ˈnaɪ.æd/) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

Contacts

JC

Jennifer Cobb

Immunology at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Locations

Bern, , Switzerland

People applied

Timeline

First submit

Trial launched

Trial updated

Estimated completion

Not reported

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