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The Neural Bases of Early Visual and Auditory Processing and Emotion Recognition Deficits in Schizophrenia

NCT02588014 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2015-10-27

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Summary

The purpose of this project is to examine potential mechanisms that may underlie early visual and auditory perception as well as visual and auditory affect perception deficits in schizophrenia and the possible connection between these processes. Given that affect perception largely involves visual and/or auditory information processing and likely relies on intact basic visual and/or auditory perceptual mechanisms, the investigators will examine affect perception deficits within the framework of the more basic visual and auditory processes. Specifically, the investigators will examine magnetophysiological correlates of vocal and visual affect discrimination, non-affective face discrimination and voice discrimination, and simple visual and auditory stimulus discrimination, using Magnetoencephalography (MEG), to identify neural mechanisms underlying perceptual deficits, as well as their contribution to affect perception deficits in schizophrenia.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Magnetoencephalography

Magnetoencephalography is a non-invasive technique for investigating human brain activity. It allows the measurement of ongoing brain activity on a millisecond-by-millisecond basis, and it shows where in the brain activity is produced.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    collaborator OTHER

  • Shalvata Mental Health Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yuval Bloch, MD · Shalvata Mental Health Center

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-11-30
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2019-12-31

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