Body Movement Imitation and Perspective Perception Among Psychiatric Patients

NCT01375894 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: SHA-07-11
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The ability to understand the other's perspective and respond accordingly is the most important normal process of daily social life and is probably one of the foundations of human existence. This capability is reflected, inter alia, as an imitation - an important and effective form of learning which is very developed in humans. When we are required to imitate a particular movement, speed of response depends on the perspective of the movement. Imitative response is implemented faster when the movement is observed from first-person perspective, than if the motion is presented from the perspective of a third party. While healthy individuals don't find it difficult to imitate, or to understand the other's emotion expression, there are psychiatric populations (such as autism and schizophrenia) who find it difficult to demonstrate these capabilities (Park, Matthews et al. 2008). Beyond these capabilities impairment, schizophrenic patients have difficulty distinguishing between their arm movements and those of a foreign hand and find it difficult to leave the boundaries of egocentric interpretation of reality and adopt the other's point of view. These behavioral disorders arise from defects in the network of mirror neurons (Buccino and Amore 2008; Langdon, Coltheart et al. 2010). Therefore, the investigator expect that schizophrenic patients will not see a preference for movements that will be displayed in first-person perspective from the same movements that will be displayed from the perspective of a third party. Consequently, the investigator speculate that these subjects will not exhibit differences at imitating the response of which will be presented from different perspectives (Jackson, Meltzoff et (al. 2006.

Conditions

Schizophrenia; Depression

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• speed of hand movement according to the reaction glove

  30 minutes

Study Arms (2)

depresive patients

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

30 patients suffering from depression

Device: imitation assessment using the 5-dt "data glove".

Schizophrenia patients

EXPERIMENTAL

30 Schizophrenia patients

Device: imitation assessment using the 5-dt "data glove".

Interventions

imitation assessment using the 5-dt "data glove". DEVICE

measuring the speed of the hand during imitation

Schizophrenia patients; depresive patients

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Men and women aged 20-65.
• Subjects who met the criteria for diagnosis of major DSM-IV for schizophrenia or unipolar depression.
• Subjects with normal or corrected vision.
• Subjects who sign informed consent for their participation in the experiment

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with acute disorder, or an unstable patient. Especially neurological disorders or head injuries.
• Drug Abuse in the past year.
• Lack of jurisdiction, such as people with mental retardation or dementia.
• assessed with high suicide risk.
• patients which are Compulsory hospitalized.
• Pregnant women

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Shalvata Mental Health Center: lead

Study Sites (1)

Shalvata MHC

Hod HaSharon, Israel

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Schizophrenia; Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders; Mental Disorders; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Central Study Contacts

Hilik Levkovitz, prof.

CONTACT

09-7478644; ylevk@clalit.org.il

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 14, 2011
• First Posted: June 17, 2011
• Study Start: March 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2012
• Study Completion: December 1, 2012
• Last Updated: January 2, 2012

Record last verified: 2011-12

Locations

IL (1)