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Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS

NCT06566651 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2024-08-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the emotional perception in people with ALS disease compared to people with other neuromuscular disease and healthy controls. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How people with ALS judge happy and angry faces and what their "insight" into these judgements are like
* How their autonomic responses differ from the other two test group Participants will asked to judge if a face presents a happy emotion or angry emotion.

Researchers will compare the ALS group responses with neuromuscular diseases group and healthy control group responses to see if the ALS group judge more happy faces than angry.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Emotion Discrimination Task (EDT)

It estimates the subjective bias and sensitivity in discriminating between happy and angry facial expressions of different intensities of emotional expression

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aalborg University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mia B Heintzelmann, Cand.med · Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-15
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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Diseases

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