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Single-center Prospective Longitudinal Study of Taste in Patients With Cognitive Disorders at Different Stages of Severity (Isolated Cognitive Complaint, Minor or Major Neurocognitive Alzheimer-type Disorders) by Analysis of Gustatory Evoked Potentials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The aim of the MAPEG 2 study is to explore gustatory function and to follow its evolution in the 4 following groups of participants: * Healthy subjects * Participants with isolated cognitive complaint * Participants with minor neurocognitive disorder * Participants with mild and moderate Alzheimer-type major neurocognitive disorders For this purpose, we want to compare the results of the following tests: * Subjective taste tests (tasting solutions, answering food preference questionnaires), * Gustatory evoked potential (GEP) parameters, recorded by electrodes placed on the scalp, * And nutritional parameters (hormones of food intake by blood test, measurement of the global body composition). Identifying and following the evolution of early taste disorders in case of cognitive disorders could improve the diagnosis of Alzheimer\'s disease in two ways: * To allow an early diagnosis of Alzheimer\'s disease, and thus improve its management, * To define groups of subjects at risk of developing Alzheimer\'s disease in later years.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
74 (estimated)
First submitted
25 May 2023
Start date
12 Jun 2023
Primary completion date
Dec 2027
Lead sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
NCT number
NCT05888961

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 74
  • From 12 Jun 2023 to the primary completion date, Dec 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Known COVID-19 infection within 6 months prior to inclusion

Other illness

  • Subject with acute or chronic ENT disease
  • Brain MRI showing another cause of neurocognitive disorder (except for vascular lesions Fazekas 1 accepted)

Other

  • MMSE score\<15
  • Person not affiliated to national health insurance system
  • Person under a legal protection measure (curatorship, guardianship)
  • Person subject to a measure of legal protection
  • Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding women
  • Subjects with a pacemaker (contraindication to bioelectrical impedance measurement)
  • Adult unable to express consent or to perform cognitive tests.
  • Active smoker (\> 4 cigarettes per day on a regular basis)
  • Diabetic subject (type 1 or type 2)
  • Treatment interfering with gustation

Who the study is looking for

  • Person who has given oral consent.
  • For patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer\'s disease, the primary caregiver and the patient will be asked to provide oral consent
  • Person of legal age
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) \< 30 kg/m².
  • For the healthy group: absence of cognitive complaints and normal neurological assessment
  • Patients meeting the criteria for isolated cognitive complaint: presence of cognitive complaint but normal neuropsychological evaluation
  • Patients meeting diagnostic criteria for minor cognitive impairment: imaging (brain MRI) and neuropsychological assessment with a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score of 0.5
  • Patients meeting diagnostic criteria for mild to moderate Alzheimer\'s disease: imaging (brain MRI), neuropsychobiological criteria (consultation with neuropsychological assessment, CSF biomarkers), MMSE score ≥ 20 and CDR score of 1 or 1.5
  • Fasting for at least 2 hours before GEP measurement

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

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Sites (1)

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Chu Dijon Bourgogne
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DijonFranceRecruiting

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