NCT02857088

Olfactory and Visual Perception in Depressed Patients

Study of the Emotional Reactivity to Olfactive and Visual Perception in Depressed Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study aimed to determine the emotional reactivity of depressed patients to visual and olfactory stimuli in comparison with healthy volunteers.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	olfactory assessment	determination of olfactory sensitivity through olfactory threshold assessment (butanol) determination of hedonicity and intensity of 16 usual odors
BEHAVIORAL	image visualization	20 images (from the IAPS-international affective picture systems) are presented to the subject. He has to determine the hedonicity of each picture.
BEHAVIORAL	psychophysiological assessment	during the olfaction assessment and the image visualization, skin conductance reactivity (SCR) is recorded to assess unconscious emotional reactivity

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2016-04-01
• First posted: 2016-08-05
• Last updated: 2016-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France