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

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University Hospital of Grenoble

Grenoble, France, 38043

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