Actively Recruiting
Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS
Led by University of Aarhus · Updated on 2024-08-22
180
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
132 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Aarhus
Lead Sponsor
A
Aarhus University Hospital
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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
Official Title
Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- ALS patients, ambulant and hospitalized, able to give informed consent, diagnosed with ALS or probable ALS according to the El Escorial Criteria
- Patients with a peripheral neuromuscular disease, ambulant and hospitalized, able to give informed consent, diagnosed with a peripheral neuromuscular disease not affecting the central nervous system, including but not limited to Myasthenia Gravis and polyneuropathy
- Healthy controls, able to give informed consent, age and gender matched to ALS patients
You will not qualify if you...
- Other severe medical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders
- Visual impairment interfering with the ability to perform the test
- Severe motor or cognitive deficits preventing test performance
- Alcohol or drug abuse interfering with task performance
- For patients with peripheral neuromuscular disease: familial predisposition to ALS
- For healthy controls: familial predisposition to ALS (first degree relatives), medical treatment affecting the central nervous system (e.g., antidepressants)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Central Jutland, Denmark, 8200
Actively Recruiting
2
Aalborg University Hospital
Aalborg, Region Nordjulland, Denmark, 9000
Not Yet Recruiting
Research Team
M
Mia B Heintzelmann, Cand.med
CONTACT
C
Camilla Hakala, Bach.psych
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
N/A
Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
3
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