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Aerobic Training Effects on Motor and Cognitive Performances in MS: an Exploratory Study With Structural and Functional MRI

Study Purpose

Aerobic training (AT) induces cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular changes and has been proposed as a promising rehabilitative approach in elderly adults and in neurological patients to improve both motor and cognitive performances. The Investigators wish to explore the role of AT in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients on physical and neuropsychological functions and its underlying anatomical and functional substrates, using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. In this project, the Investigators wish to apply aerobic training in right-handed MS patients and healthy controls to assess: 1. the effects of aerobic training compared to conventional motor training on motor and cardio-vascular parameters; 2. the effect of aerobic training compared to conventional motor training on cognitive performance, depression and fatigue; 3. the modifications of functional activations during a cognitive task and of functional connectivity in motor and cognitive networks during resting state following aerobic training and conventional motor training (functional plasticity); 4. the regional variations of gray matter (GM) volumes and white matter (WM) architecture after aerobic training and conventional motor training (structural plasticity); 5. the correlations between the changes detected with structural and functional MRI and clinical, motor and neuropsychological scales.

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Study Type

An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes.


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Eligible Ages 18 Years - 65 Years
Gender All
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Inclusion criteria (All)

  • - Age between 18 and 65 years; - Native italian language speaking; - Right-handed; - No particular motor skills; - No additional neurologic, psychiatric, orthopaedic or rheumatologic diseases; - Normal or corrected-to-normal vision; - No contraindications to MRI; - Ability to understand the purpose of the study and provide signed informed consent.
For MS patients, the following additional inclusion criteria will be applied:
  • - Patients with a diagnosis of MS, regardless of sex, duration and course of the disease; - EDSS score ranging from 0 to 6.0 (included); - Stable treatment for MS from at least 1 month prior to study enrolment; - Relapse- and steroid-free from at least 3 months before screening visit; - An indication to perform a physiotherapy treatment by the treating physician.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • - Persons who perform regularly a structured training; - Patients who performed a physiotherapy treatment for at least 3 months; - Concomitant therapy with antidepressant, baclofen, psychoactive, and steroids drugs as well as symptomatic treatment for fatigue; - History of alcohol or substance abuse; - Pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Trial Details

Trial ID:

This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.

NCT04097418
Phase

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Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data.

Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs.

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Lead Sponsor

The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.

IRCCS San Raffaele
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Massimo Filippi, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation IRCCS San Raffaele
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Recruiting
Countries Italy
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Multiple Sclerosis
Additional Details

This study is a monocentric, non-pharmacological, longitudinal, randomized, blind, controlled study. Subjects The Investigators will study 40 right-handed MS patients with Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score ≤6 and an indication to perform a physiotherapy treatment by the treating physician. Patients will be recruited from the Department of Neurology, San Raffaele Hospital. Forty sex- and age-matched right-handed healthy individuals (HC) will also be enrolled. The HC will be recruited from the patients' relatives or acquaintances of the study personnel. The enrolment of HC is crucial to define whether post-treatment changes observed in MS patients are adaptive or maladaptive and to estimate the magnitude of these alterations. Subjects who will satisfy the inclusion criteria will then be randomized through a sequence generated by the computer to determine their assignment to the conventional motor rehabilitation therapy group (control group) or to the aerobic training (experimental group). The computerized randomization software will generate personal codes to allocate every patient to a treatment arm. These codes will be placed in opaque envelopes and delivered to the patient by an operator external to the study. Thus, participants will be split into 4 groups of 20 subjects per group: 1. Experimental group of HC: aerobic training by treadmill at moderate intensity; 2. Control group of HC: training of passive mobility, stretching and balance; 3. Experimental group of MS patients: aerobic training by treadmill at moderate intensity; 4. Control group of MS patients: training of passive mobility, stretching and balance. Inclusion criteria (All)

  • - Age: 18-65 years; - Native italian language speaking; - Right-handed; - No particular motor skills; - No additional neurologic, psychiatric, orthopaedic or rheumatologic diseases; - Normal or corrected-to-normal vision; - No MRI contraindications; - Ability to understand the purpose of the study and provide signed informed consent.
For MS patients, the following additional inclusion criteria will be applied:
  • - Patients with a MS diagnosis; - EDSS ≤6.0; - Stable MS treatment from ≥1 month prior to study enrolment; - Relapse- and steroid-free from ≥3 months before screening visit; - An indication to perform a physiotherapy treatment by the treating physician.
Exclusion criteria.
  • - Persons who perform regularly a structured training; - Patients who performed a physiotherapy treatment for at least 3 months; - Concomitant therapy with antidepressant, baclofen, psychoactive, and steroids drugs as well as symptomatic treatment for fatigue; - History of alcohol or substance abuse; - Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Clinical and functional assessment All subjects will undergo a screening questionnaire and a cardiologic evaluation, including electrocardiogram, followed by a graded exercise test, in order to exclude possible contraindications to the inclusion in the study. The graded exercise test will permit to measure the following parameters:
  • - peak oxygen consumption (VO2); - maximum wattage; - heart rate (isolabour and maximum); - rate of perceived exertion (Borg scale of rating of perceived exertion (RPE)).
Subjects who will satisfy the inclusion criteria will be randomized to the four groups previously described. All the subject will be assessed with clinical, cardiologic, neuropsychological and MRI evaluations at:
  • - baseline (before the start of the rehabilitation treatment) - T0, - Week 4 - T1, - Week 8 (end of the study) - T2.
A clinical follow-up has been planned 3 months after the end of the treatment. At each time-point, MS patients will be evaluated with the following assessments:
  • - Graded exercise test; - Complete neurological evaluation by a neurologist with the definition of the EDSS score and the MS Functional Composite (MSFC); - Assessment of autonomy in daily life activities, through the "Functional Independence Measurement" (FIM); - Spasticity, evaluating the modified Ashworth scale; - Fatigue, through the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS); - Depression, using the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II); - Perceived quality of life, through the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life Scale (MSQOL-54).
HC will be evaluated with the MSFC, MFIS and BDI-II. All subjects will also be evaluated on additional motor aspects by the "6 minutes walking test" and the "Time up and go" test. Finally, participants will undergo a neuropsychological assessment, using the Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests, the Digit Span (forward and backward) and the Brief Test of Intelligence. At the same time-points, all subjects will perform a MR scan, using a 3.0 Tesla scanner, available at the San Raffaele Hospital. The following brain MRI sequences will be acquired: 1. Dual-echo (DE) turbo spin echo (SE); 2. 3D T1-weighted fast field echo; 3. Pulsed-SE gradient echo planar imaging (EPI) with SENSE (acceleration factor=2) and diffusion gradients applied in 35 non-collinear directions; 4. functional MRI (fMRI) in Resting State (RS) condition; 5. fMRI with an active cognitive task (Stroop task): using an event-related design, it will be proposed different type of stimuli, i.e. congruent, incongruent and neutral stimuli. Participants will be asked to respond to the color of the ink through four buttons (red, green, yellow, blue) of a fMRI compatible response-box, which will record reaction times and accuracy. Assessors of clinical, neuropsychological and MRI evaluations will be blind with respect to participants allocation. Safety Possible fatigue, dyspnea, pain in the lower limbs. Subjects with possible contraindications to the execution of an aerobic training (belonging to risk classes according to World Health Organization (WHO) classification and to the American College of Sports Medicine) and the execution of the MR (e.g., claustrophobia, pacemakers, pregnancy, etc.) will not be enrolled in the study. The occurrence of side effects will be recorded at each clinical visit or treatment session. Treatment For each subject, the treatment will lasts 8 weeks. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week. Both experimental and control treatment will be performed by two experienced physiotherapists (different from those involved in clinical and functional evaluations). Subjects of the experimental groups (both patients and HC) will carry out an aerobic training of moderate intensity (fixed time and variable intensity) on a treadmill. The training will be set individually via direct method: during the first session, the subject will be trained at an intensity that gets the heart rate (HR) corresponding to 46-63% of VO2 peak measured during the exercise test; in subsequent sessions the intensity will increase to maintain the same HR, which will be always monitored. The intensity workout identified will be maintained for 30 minutes each session, preceded and followed by a few minutes of warm-up and cool-down. Control groups of both patients and HC will follow a conventional non-aerobic physiotherapy training, structured in: 15 minutes of passive mobilization of upper and lower limbs and spine, 5 minutes of stretching of the upper and the lower limbs and 10 minutes of balance training. Duration The treatment period for each patient is 8 weeks. Follow-up visits will occur at 3 months after the end of treatment. MRI analysis All anonymized MRI data will be saved on a Linux workstation and coded with letters (A,B,C,D) according to the study group (to preserve blindness). All image post-processing will be performed by an experienced observer unaware of subjects identity and type of treatment. At baseline, T2 lesion volumes (LV) will be measured. New T2-visible lesions at follow up will be counted. On 3D T1 images, the normalized brain volume, as well as the normalized WM and GM volumes will be quantified using the cross-sectional version of the software Structural Imaging Evaluation of Normalized Atrophy (SIENAx). Longitudinal changes of brain volumes will be evaluated with the longitudinal version of the software Structural Imaging Evaluation of Normalized Atrophy (SIENA). Definition of the patterns of GM volume changes Voxel-based Morphometry (VBM) with Diffeomorphic Image Registration Algorithm (DARTEL) method will be applied to determine the differences of GM volumes between different subgroups of patients and controls at baseline. Tensor-based Morphometry (TBM) will be applied to map the longitudinal regional variations of GM volume at T1 and T2. Tract-based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) will be used to define the patterns of the microstructural WM abnormalities at baseline and their variations during the follow up. Analysis of fMRI data Active and RS fMRI data will be pre-processed using SPM12. Activations during the Stroop task will be estimated using SPM12. An independent Component Analysis (ICA) will be used to decompose RS fMRI data into spatially independent maps and time courses, using the Group ICA Of fMRI Toolbox (GIFT) software. Statistical analysis Demographic, clinical, functional and neuropsychological variables, as well as MRI measures at baseline will be compared using Chi-Square, t-test or ANCOVA models as appropriate. The condition of a normal distribution will be verified using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk, as well as with the visual assessment of the estimated non-parametric Kernel density and Q-plot. To assess changes over time of clinical measures, functional and Z-score average of RS fluctuations, longitudinal linear models will be applied using a statistical design that takes into account the repeated measures in the context of a bivariate model. The correlations in each patient will be quantified with a matrix of correlations unstructured. The dependent variable will be the vector of the assessment from all participants at each time point (before and after treatment). Considering the two groups of patients together, the effects of different treatment will be evaluated considering the cross-interaction "treatment x time" in the linear model. A p value <0.05 will be considered statistically significant. Statistical analyses of the VBM, the TBM and the fMRI active task will be performed using the SPM12 software (whole brain analysis, p <0.05, family-wise error [FWE], corrected for multiple comparisons). Voxelwise differences of mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy values between treatment and control groups at baseline, and their within-group changes at follow up will be tested, using a permutation method ("Randomize" program within FSL) and two-sample and paired t tests, as appropriate (p<0.05 FWE). Linear regression analysis (using SPM12) will be used to assess the correlations between fMRI activations and clinical and neuropsychological data. Sample size calculation Given the exploratory nature of the project, the sample size of the study has been calculated also taking into account its feasibility. The power's study showed that, for two continuous variables, with n=40 subjects and a type I error alpha= 0.05, we will able to detect a significant Pearson correlation at least equal to 0.48 with a power of 0.90 and a standardized difference between balanced groups equal to 0.8 with a power of 0.90. Furthermore, the sample size planned in this project is usually considered adequate for the performance of a fMRI analysis. Ethical and regulatory considerations This clinical study will be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down by the 18th World Medical Assembly (Helsinki, 1964) and all applicable amendments laid down by the World Medical Assemblies, and the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) guidelines for Good Clinical Practice. This clinical study will be conducted in compliance with all international laws and regulations, and national laws and regulations of the country(ies) in which the clinical trial is performed, as well as any applicable guidelines.

Arms & Interventions

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Experimental: Aerobic training in healthy subjects

For each healthy subject, the treatment will lasts 8 weeks. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week. Subjects of the experimental groups (both patients and healthy controls) will carry out an aerobic training of moderate intensity (fixed time and variable intensity) on a treadmill. The training will be set individually via direct method: during the first session, the subject will be trained at an intensity that gets the heart rate (HR) corresponding to 46-63% of VO2 peak measured during the exercise test; in subsequent sessions the intensity will increase to maintain the same HR, which will be always monitored. The intensity workout identified will be maintained for 30 minutes each session, preceded and followed by a few minutes of warm-up and cool-down.

Active Comparator: Conventional motor training of healthy subjects

For each healthy subject, the treatment will lasts 8 weeks. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week. Control groups of both patients and healthy subjects will follow a conventional non-aerobic physiotherapy training, structured in: 15 minutes of passive mobilization of upper and lower limbs and spine, 5 minutes of stretching of the upper and the lower limbs and 10 minutes of balance training.

Experimental: Aerobic training in MS patients

For each MS patient, the treatment will lasts 8 weeks. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week. Subjects of the experimental groups (both patients and healthy controls) will carry out an aerobic training of moderate intensity (fixed time and variable intensity) on a treadmill. The training will be set individually via direct method: during the first session, the subject will be trained at an intensity that gets the heart rate (HR) corresponding to 46-63% of VO2 peak measured during the exercise test; in subsequent sessions the intensity will increase to maintain the same HR, which will be always monitored. The intensity workout identified will be maintained for 30 minutes each session, preceded and followed by a few minutes of warm-up and cool-down.

Active Comparator: Conventional motor training of MS patients

For each MS patient, the treatment will lasts 8 weeks. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week. Control groups of both patients and healthy subjects will follow a conventional non-aerobic physiotherapy training, structured in: 15 minutes of passive mobilization of upper and lower limbs and spine, 5 minutes of stretching of the upper and the lower limbs and 10 minutes of balance training.

Interventions

Behavioral: - Aerobic training compared to conventional motor training

Aerobic training: aerobic training by treadmill at moderate intensity. Each treatment will consists of 35 minutes of training, administered 3 times per week, for 8 weeks. Conventional motor training: 15 minutes of passive mobilization of upper and lower limbs and spine, 5 minutes of stretching of the upper and the lower limbs and 10 minutes of balance training, administered 3 times per week, for 8 weeks.

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