Video game aims to boost brain power in MS patients
NCT ID NCT04694534
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether playing a special online game for 20 minutes, four times a week, can improve memory and thinking speed in people with multiple sclerosis. Researchers will compare the game group to a control group receiving standard care. The trial aims to enroll 150 adults with relapsing-remitting or progressive MS who have cognitive complaints.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- serious game (online cognitive training program)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a fun, accessible way to help people with multiple sclerosis sharpen their memory and thinking speed.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage trial with no phase, so results are uncertain. The game may not provide lasting benefits beyond standard care, and improvements might be small.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2021
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Relapsing-remitting or progressive multiple sclerosis people defined according to Mc Donald's criteria revised in 2005 * Age between ≥ 18 and ≤ 65 years old * Cognitive complaint, with at least one deficient score at the initial neuropsychological examination (\<5th percentile of the reference group), one of the scores of which concerns at least one BICAMS test * Have not had a definite relapse for at least 6 weeks * Be at least 4 weeks away from a corticosteroid bolus * Lack of neuroleptic treatment * Patient with an Internet connection * Signed informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Severe cognitive deficit defined by obtaining a deficit score in more than six cognitive processes at the initial neuropsychological assessment. * Neuropsychological care * Inability to receive oral and written information * Inability to use the software (due in particular to motor and / or sensory difficulties), * Neurological or psychiatric comorbidity, other than MS and anxiodepressive syndrome * Patient with severe anxiodepressive syndrome (BDI\> 27) * Participation in an interventional study on cognitive functions * Patient under legal protection, guardianship or curatorship * Pregnant or breastfeeding women
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
6 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CH Arras
RECRUITINGArras, Hauts-de-France, 62000, France
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CH LENS
RECRUITINGLens, Hauts-de-France, 62300, France
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CHRU
RECRUITINGLille, Hauts-de-France, 59000, France
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Charles Nicolle Hospital
RECRUITINGRouen, Normandy, 76000, France
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Saint Vincent hospital
RECRUITINGLille, Hauts-de-France, 59000, France
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Saint-Philibert hospital
RECRUITINGLomme, Nord, 59462, France
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