Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-26 @ 12:19 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-26 @ 12:19 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00664300
Brief Summary:
Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome is a childhood onset inherited neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by the presence of both multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics (noises), with psychiatric and/or behaviour disorders (such as obsessive compulsive behaviour…).
This disease is associated with an dopamine system imbalance which could be responsible of a specific trouble in the recognition in some facial expression. This has been already shown in Gilles de la Tourette patients with obsessive compulsive behaviour.
We hypothesise that patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome present a dysfunction of voluntary and automatic treatment of emotional information.
The main purpose of this study is to show if patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome present a lack of specific facial expression recognition of emotion and determinate more precisely if this alteration involves the cortical way (high frequency way) or the under cortical way (low frequency way).
Detailed Description:
20 patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome compared to 20 healthy paired volunteers.
Study progress (patients):
Inclusion visit :
Psychiatric evaluation Psychological evaluation
Ophthalmic visit
Protocol :
Facial expression recognition test Lexical decision test
Study progress (healthy volunteers):
Psychiatric evaluation Ophthalmic visit Facial expression recognition test Lexical decision test
Study:
NCT00664300
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00664300