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Clinical Evaluation of HRV Biofeedback in Functional Neurological Disorders Compared to Placebo

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorCentre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Started2024-09-09
Est. completion2027-05
Eligibility
Age18 Years – 70 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted

Summary

Evaluation of the clinical effects of the Heart Rate Variability biofeedback training with patients suffering from Functional neurological Disorders compared with placebo.

Eligibility

Age: 18 Years – 70 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) diagnosis must be medically established
* Participants must have a smartphone (android ou Iphone)
* Participants must be of the age of majority
* Participants must have signed an informed consent
* Sufficiently fluent in French to understand study documents and instructions
* Consistency in performing repeated questionnaires
* Normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity

Exclusion Criteria:

* Specially protected participants: juveniles, pregnant womens, nursing mothers, law's protection peoples
* Participants suffering from a severe psychiatric disease needing specialised attention
* History of severe neurosurgical pathology
* Alcohol dependence or drug use
* Participants suffering from or have suffered from a severe disease causing autonomic dysfunctions (heart failure, asthma, blood disease, renal failure, peripheral neuropathy, vagotomy, thyroid disorder, alcoholism, liver disease, amyloidosis)
* Participants taking medication which could be impact autonomic nervous system activity (anticholinergic, antiarrhythmics, clonidine, beta-blockers, tricyclic anti-depressants, metronidazole)
* Participants placing under judicial or administrative supervisions

Conditions2

Functional Neurological DisorderHeart Disease

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