Trials / Unknown
UnknownNCT01322984
Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Social Stimuli in Children and Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of Tromso · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 7 Years – 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Children and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been shown to react abnormally to social stimuli, especially to human faces. Children and youth with ASD show less interest in social stimuli, and may even avoid looking at or interact with such stimuli. It has been proposed that social stimuli elicit reactions like fear and stress in individuals with ASD, and this explains the lack of interest and avoidance. The present project investigates this hypothesis.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Pictures | The participants will be exposed to pictures of faces and non-facial stimuli presented on a PC screen. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Startle eliciting noise | Startle will be elicited by 95 dB noise, presented at different times after picture onset. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-01-01
- First posted
- 2011-03-25
- Last updated
- 2012-10-25
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Norway
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01322984. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.