NCT01312649

Feeling of Being in Control of One's Own Action

Feeling of Being in Control of One's Own Action: Which Mechanisms in Healthy Volunteers and in Mental Diseases

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 198 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators aim is to understand the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to the emergence of delusions of control (the belief that one's own actions or thoughts are controlled by an external force). These symptoms are mainly encountered in patients with schizophrenia, and the investigators will distinguish patients with schizophrenia with or without this symptom together with patients with bipolar disorder. Based on the investigators previous studies, this project will help to determine the role of two elementary mechanisms in the ability to feel in control of voluntary actions: (1) the processing of the sensory consequences of action, and (2) the ability to build mental representations for sequenced actions.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental psychology methods (computer tests)

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-15
• Completion: 2017-07-04
• First posted: 2011-03-11
• Last updated: 2025-12-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France