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UnknownNCT01550211

Changes in Brain Synchronization During Perceptual and Linguistic Tasks in Schizophrenic Patients

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
150 (estimated)
Sponsor
Shalvata Mental Health Center · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

This study aims to identify electrophysiological correlates of impaired perceptual and linguistic processes in chronic schizophrenic patients, un-medicated first-episode schizophrenic patients and their healthy relatives. Following administrating some questionnaires (demographic details and psychiatric history questionnaire, handedness questionnaire, reading abilities test and positive and negative symptoms questionnaire) and performing a perception test and a verbal abstract intelligence test, participants will conduct a brain scan during a series of perceptual and linguistic tasks.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICEMagnetoencephalograph (MEG)Conducting a brain scan during a series of perceptual and linguistic tasks

Timeline

Start date
2012-03-01
Primary completion
2014-03-01
First posted
2012-03-09
Last updated
2012-03-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01550211. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.