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Impulse Control in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

NCT04197804 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2023-05-09

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Summary

The study intends to evaluate the role of Mirror Neurons in the determination of gestures, words, and repetitive vocalizations in subjects affected by Tourette's syndrome and to verify if these subjects are faster to assemble sounds, in phonology and morphology, than the non-pathological population.

Conditions

  • Tourette Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Routine tests perform

The subjects of the Tourette group and control group are subjected to routine tests performed at Tourette Center and Extrapyramidal Diseases. Both groups are initially subjected to an evaluation that aims to identify the IQ and therefore 4 tasks are presented. The 1st (with a duration of about 2 and a half minutes) and the 2nd (with a duration of about 2 minutes) related to the motor field, the 3rd (with duration of about 1 minute) and the 4th (with duration about 3 minutes) the language field. These evaluations are in practice at the Center for Tourette patients; the tasks will be administered to both groups.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mauro Porta · IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-02
Primary Completion
2019-04-30
Completion
2019-04-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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