Status:
COMPLETED
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital, Grenoble
Collaborating Sponsors:
GIPSA-LAB
Conditions:
Schizophrenia
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-60 years
Brief Summary
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are speech perceptions in the absence of a relevant external stimulation. Some accounts of AVHs claim that a deficit in inner speech monitoring would cause the ve...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Healthy controls:
- must be more than 18 years and less than 60 years old
- pre-inclusion medical examination
- must have signed consent form
- must be able to read stimuli on a screen
- Schizophrenia patients:
- must be more than 18 years and less than 60 years old
- pre-inclusion medical examination
- must have signed consent form
- must be able to read stimuli on a screen
- diagnosed with a schizophrenia disorder according to DSM-IV TR (diagnostic and statistical of mental disorders) (PANSS item P3 greater than 4)
- prior evaluation of the secondary effects of any medication via Barnes and AIMS scales
- affiliated with the French social security
- if under guardianship, must have additional consent form signed by guardian
Exclusion
- Healthy controls:
- if aged less than 18 years or more than 60 years
- diagnosed with any psychiatric disorder
- with any language disorder (aphasia, SLI, dysarthria, stuttering, etc.)
- with auditory impairment
- pregnant, parturient, breast-feeding
- Schizophrenia patients:
- if aged less than 18 years or more than 60 years
- significant secondary effects of antipsychotic medication, measured with the Barnes and AIMS scales
- with a neurodegenerative disease
- with any language disorder (aphasia, SLI, dysarthria, stuttering, etc.)
- with auditory impairment
- pregnant, parturient, breast-feeding
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2009
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01886417
Start Date
October 1 2009
End Date
March 1 2015
Last Update
March 10 2015
Active Locations (1)
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University Hospital of Grenoble
Grenoble, France, 38043