Dynamic Cardio-vascular, Cerebro-vascular and Cortical Interaction in Healthy Adult Subjects

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Active standing: a session at resting state in supine position, a session during autonomic challenge obtained via active standing evoking reflex sympathetic activation, and a session of emotional elicitation via the administration of videos

Study summary

IDEALE aims to assess the status of autonomic function, cerebral autoregulation (CA) and cortical activity in healthy subjects and correlate these functions with the psychological dimension of the subjects.

To this end, parameters of cardiac, cortical, vascular and cerebrovascular variability derived from electrocardiographic, electroencephalographic, respiratory movement, blood pressure, transcranial Doppler signals will be acquired and analysed for each healthy volunteer (TCD) and Laser-Doppler transcutaneous, during a phase of clinostatism (REST) and one of active orthostatism (STAND). In addition, volunteers will be submitted to psychometric tests (Chieti Affective Action Videos, CAAV) to assess the presence of depressive symptoms.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Autoregulation index (ARI) — 36 months
  ARI is an index describing the state of cerebral autoregulation from mean cerebral blood velocity and mean arterial pressure. Minimum value 0, maximum value 9. ARI\>4 means working autoregulation. ARI\<4 means impaired autoregulation. It will be computed for all participants.
• Baroreflex sensitivity — 36 months
  Baroreflex sensitivity will be measured in ms/mmHg. Minimum value 0. Higher value means a better baroreflex regulation. It will be computed in all participants
• Cortical activity — 36 months
  Power of EEG in Alpha and Beta band will be measured in square microvolt. Minimum value 0.

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