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Changes in Brain Synchronization During Perceptual and Linguistic Tasks in Schizophrenic Patients

NCT01550211 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2012-03-09

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Summary

This study aims to identify electrophysiological correlates of impaired perceptual and linguistic processes in chronic schizophrenic patients, un-medicated first-episode schizophrenic patients and their healthy relatives.

Following administrating some questionnaires (demographic details and psychiatric history questionnaire, handedness questionnaire, reading abilities test and positive and negative symptoms questionnaire) and performing a perception test and a verbal abstract intelligence test, participants will conduct a brain scan during a series of perceptual and linguistic tasks.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenic Patients

Interventions

DEVICE

Magnetoencephalograph (MEG)

Conducting a brain scan during a series of perceptual and linguistic tasks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    collaborator OTHER

  • Shalvata Mental Health Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hilik Levkovitz, Professor · Shalvata MHC

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-03-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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