Emotional Proactive Brain Study in Adults With Autism Spectrum Condition — PREDEMAUT  

Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title: Emotional Proactive Brain Study in Adults With Autism Spectrum Condition

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This project aims:

• to study behavioral and cerebral activity specificity (latency and amplitude of evoked potentials, time frequency maps and cerebral connectivity) in predictive process (top-down regulation) during visual recognition of static and dynamic stimuli in adults participants with autism spectrum conditions compared to typically developed participants.

• to study the relation between predictive process and autonomous response (heart activity and electrodermal activity)

• to explore potential sex differences between autistic males and females

Clinical Trial Description

Once eligibility criteria would have been verified, information on the study will be given and non opposition of the participant will be collected.Then, the participant will be comfortably installed in order to pass the Landolt C task (visual acuity task) on a computer. If his vision is normal, electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) of participants, will be recorded during visual processing and recognition tasks. Stimuli will include emotional and non emotional pictures and films, filtered in coarse-to-fine versus fine-to-coarse sequences in order to stimulate or not predictive process described by Bar (2007).

The participant will also have to complete an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, IVth edition (Wechsler, 2003), and the Autism Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) if he never did it before. The aim is to pair as much as possible group by IQ and to verify that control participants don't present autistic traits above the Autism Spectrum Quotient cutoff. Groups will also be paired by age and education level. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Autistic Disorder

• NCT number: NCT04069676
• Study type: Observational
• Source: University Hospital, Grenoble
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 17, 2020
• Completion date: July 12, 2021