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Decision-making and Emotion Recognition in Essential Tremor

NCT01223144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2012-06-08

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Summary

The present study aims at investigating cognitive functions requiring orbitofrontal control, namely decision-making and facial emotion recognition. The investigators hypothesize that decision-making and facial emotion recognition are impaired in patients with essential tremor (ET) due to frontal lobe dysfunction which may have consequences in daily social life.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Iowa Gambling Task and Ekman facial recognition test

Iowa Gambling Task: mean number of cards chosen from decks with low (A+B) and high gain (C+D). Ekman facial recognition test: mean number of faces correctly recognized (60 images with 6 different expressions: happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and anger).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Bordeaux

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wassilios Meissner, MD, PhD · University Hospital Bordeaux, France

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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