Clinical Trials to Gain FDA Approval for Computerized Cognitive Training: What Is the Ideal Control Condition?

Affiliations

¹ The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Queens College, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA.
² Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY, USA.
³ Duke Medicine and Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Queens College, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric InstituteNew York, NY, USA.

Jeffrey N Motter et al. Front Aging Neurosci. 2016.

. 2016 Nov 2:8:249.

doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00249. eCollection 2016.

¹ The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Queens College, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA.
² Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY, USA.
³ Duke Medicine and Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Queens College, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric InstituteNew York, NY, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: active control; cognitive training; engagement; mild cognitive impairment; placebo.

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