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Quantitative Sensory Testing to Study Pain Perception in Autism
Led by IRCCS Eugenio Medea · Updated on 2024-10-26
50
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
58 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
This study aims at assess sensory perception, and pain perception, in neurodivergent children and adolescent in the autism spectrum. To achieve this goal, the quantitive sensory testing (QST), a controlled and replicable protocol, will be used, to assess perception in different sensory modalities: heat sensations, mechanical detection threshold and pain threshold. As secondary aim, the cortical processing of thermal painful stimuli will be collected through electroencephalography (EEG) in order to investigate if there are differences in the cortical processing of painful stimuli between clinical sample and control sample, and if it could be associated with differences in the subjective experience between the two groups. Finally, it will be explored the association between such differences, and indexes of psychopathology and dispositional measures.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Quantitative Sensory Testing to Study Pain Perception in Autism
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Children and adolescents aged between 5 and 17 years old
- Autism diagnosis according to DSM-V criteria (clinical sample)
- Healthy children and adolescents without neurological or psychiatric diagnoses (control sample)
You will not qualify if you...
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Psychiatric diagnoses such as psychosis
- Tourette Syndrome
- Neurological diagnoses such as epilepsy
- Sensory deficit or loss
- Genetic diseases
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
IRCCS "E. Medea"
Brindisi, BR, Italy, 72100
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Research Team
V
Valentina Nicolardi, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
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Primary Purpose
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Number of Arms
2
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