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Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Social Stimuli in Children and Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder

NCT01322984 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2012-10-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been shown to react abnormally to social stimuli, especially to human faces. Children and youth with ASD show less interest in social stimuli, and may even avoid looking at or interact with such stimuli. It has been proposed that social stimuli elicit reactions like fear and stress in individuals with ASD, and this explains the lack of interest and avoidance. The present project investigates this hypothesis.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pictures

The participants will be exposed to pictures of faces and non-facial stimuli presented on a PC screen.

BEHAVIORAL

Startle eliciting noise

Startle will be elicited by 95 dB noise, presented at different times after picture onset.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Tromso

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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