NCT06323564

Exploring Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Flexibility in Anorexia Nervosa and Parkinson's Disease.

Exploring How Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Flexibility Affect the Measurement of Emotional Valence and Arousal in Two Populations: Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Parkinson's Disease.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Auxologico Italiano · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main aim of this study is to demonstrate how disorders characterized by different types of "inflexibility", cognitive-affective type for Anorexia nervosa and motor one for Parkinson's disease, have an impact on how emotional stimuli are processed and on the transition within emotional states.

Detailed description

Although many psychometric models have been developed on emotions, affect measurements, which represent the measurement of behavioural, subjective and neuropsychophysiological changes associated with an emotional episode, still remains one of the most debated topics. Emotions are entities with blurred boundaries and with substantial idiosyncrasies that characterize their measurable manifestations. One of the most consolidated theoretical reference models for measuring affect is that of James Russel called the "Affective Core Model". According to this model, emotion arises when the undifferentiated and pre-reflective magma of affect (core affect) is attracted by an external (or internal) object that can be defined as emotigenic, i.e. capable of defining the nature of emotional experience by orienting it along two dimensions principal factors. The most used theoretical model for affect measurement is the one that describes an emotional episode in the light of two distinguishable continuous dimensions: that of hedonic value (identifies the degree of pleasantness of the emotional event), of a subjective nature, and that of arousal or psychophysiological activation. Although this model has been widely corroborated in various disciplines, there is still a lack of a clear description of the process that allows an individual to transition from one emotionally object-oriented state to another. This project proposes and intends to validate a new modality of three-dimensional psychometric modeling of emotions, based on the intersection between the consolidated two-dimensional model of arousal-valence and a third purely cognitive component definable as mental flexibility, capable of including high-level cognitive processes, intrinsically connected with the emotional sphere, such as emotional intelligence (Emotional Intelligence, EI) and emotional regulation.

Conditions

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Neuropsychological tests in PD	Colored Progressive Matrices (BDM), Stroop Test (Caffarra et al., 2000), Stroop Test (Caffarra et al., 2000), Attentional Matrices (part I - Della Sala et al., 1992), Attentional Matrices (part The - Della Sala et al., 1992), Trail Making Test (Giovagnoli et al., 1996 - part A), Trail Making Test (Giovagnoli et al., 1996 - part B), Trail Making Test (Giovagnoli et al., 1996 - B-A), MMSE (Grigoletto et al., 1999), Clock Drawing - PD (Caffarra et al., 2011), Digit Span Forward (Orsini et al., 1987), Digit Span Backward (Monaco et al. , 2012), 15 Rey Words - Immediate Recall (BDM), 15 Rey Words - Deferred Recall (BDM), Phonemic Fluency (Costa et al., 2014), Semantic Fluency (Costa et al., 2014), Frontal Assessment Battery ( FAB - Apollonio et al.,2005).
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Self-report questionnaires in PD	STAI Y2 (trait anxiety), TEIque (153 items), STAI Y1 (state anxiety), ERQ (10 items), EISR (33 items), BDI (21 items), WLEIS (16 ITEMS), CFI (20 ITEMS ), CCFQ (18 ITEM).
DEVICE	International Affective Picture System (IAPS)	Subsequently, at both T0 and T1, standardized emotional images from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) will be administered. The images will be chosen based on the arousal-valence parameters, eliminating those with stimuli that are too salient with respect to the disorders examined. The order of administration will be organized and randomized between subjects as follows: 24 blocks of 2 minutes and for each block there will be 12 images of 10 seconds each. For the entire duration of the test, peripheral physiological parameters such as ECG, BVP, GSR, EOG, RSP and facial EMG (corrugator and zygomaticus) will also be detected, as objective measures of emotional arousal (T0-T1).
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Neuropsychological tests in AN	Verbal Fluencies, Tower of London, TMT-A \& B
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Self-report questionnaires in AN	STAI Y2 (20 items trait anxiety), TEIque (153 items), STAI Y1 (20 items state anxiety), DFlex (24 items), ERQ (10 items), EISR (33 items), BDI (21 items), TAS-20 (20 items), WLEIS (16 ITEMS), CFI (20 ITEMS), CCFQ (18 items).
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Analysis of bio-humoral parameters	the analysis of bio-humoral parameters (interleukin 6, cortisol, serotonin, catecholamines and endorphins) will be also performed through morning venous blood sampling at T0, at half of the rehabilitation process and at T1

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-13
• Primary completion: 2024-08-13
• Completion: 2025-01-13
• First posted: 2024-03-21
• Last updated: 2024-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy