Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome Clinical Trial
Official title:
Facial Expression Recognition of Emotion and Categorization of Emotional Words in Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome
Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome is a childhood onset inherited neuropsychiatric disorder
characterised by the presence of both multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics
(noises), with psychiatric and/or behaviour disorders (such as obsessive compulsive
behaviour…).
This disease is associated with an dopamine system imbalance which could be responsible of a
specific trouble in the recognition in some facial expression. This has been already shown
in Gilles de la Tourette patients with obsessive compulsive behaviour.
We hypothesise that patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome present a dysfunction of
voluntary and automatic treatment of emotional information.
The main purpose of this study is to show if patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome
present a lack of specific facial expression recognition of emotion and determinate more
precisely if this alteration involves the cortical way (high frequency way) or the under
cortical way (low frequency way).
20 patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome compared to 20 healthy paired volunteers.
Study progress (patients):
Inclusion visit :
Psychiatric evaluation Psychological evaluation
Ophthalmic visit
Protocol :
Facial expression recognition test Lexical decision test
Study progress (healthy volunteers):
Psychiatric evaluation Ophthalmic visit Facial expression recognition test Lexical decision
test
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed |
NCT03042507 -
Psychosocial Intervention for Young Children With Chronic Tics
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