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Self-Face Recognition After Face Transplantation

NCT03027141 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2026-02-27

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Summary

The purpose of the proposed study is to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how a change in facial appearance is initially represented in brain circuits and then alters over time, as the new face becomes recognized as "me".

Investigators will try to identify areas of the brain responsible for processing and storing information about self-facial recognition; Examine how these areas of the brain respond to images of "self" and "non-self" and; Investigate how the brain responds, over time, to changes in facial recognition, particularly at time points: i) prior to facial injury, ii) post-injury but prior to facial transplantation, and iii) after receiving facial transplantation.

Conditions

  • Disfigurement of Face

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Face recognition task

Inside the MRI scanner and during the experiment, participants will be asked to make judgments about the identity they perceived in each morphed picture.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Eduardo Rodriguez · NYU Langone Health

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-01
Primary Completion
2025-12-10
Completion
2025-12-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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