NCT04197804

Impulse Control in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

Do Mirror Neurons Play a Role in Tourette Syndrome Physiopathology? A Pilot Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study intends to evaluate the role of Mirror Neurons in the determination of gestures, words, and repetitive vocalizations in subjects affected by Tourette's syndrome and to verify if these subjects are faster to assemble sounds, in phonology and morphology, than the non-pathological population.

Conditions

• Tourette Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Routine tests perform	The subjects of the Tourette group and control group are subjected to routine tests performed at Tourette Center and Extrapyramidal Diseases. Both groups are initially subjected to an evaluation that aims to identify the IQ and therefore 4 tasks are presented. The 1st (with a duration of about 2 and a half minutes) and the 2nd (with a duration of about 2 minutes) related to the motor field, the 3rd (with duration of about 1 minute) and the 4th (with duration about 3 minutes) the language field. These evaluations are in practice at the Center for Tourette patients; the tasks will be administered to both groups.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-02
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-04-30
• First posted: 2019-12-13
• Last updated: 2023-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy