Assessment of Social-emotional Functioning in Neurological Diseases (Emotion)
Assessment of Social-emotional Functioning in Stroke, Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer and Parkinson Diseases
Empathy, defined as the ability to understand others emotions, is a fundamental concept in social interactions. It is a psychological phenomenon involving various separable components : (i) the ability to feel and imagine the emotions, (ii) the ability to adopt the perspective of other people. Several neurological diseases with behavioral disorders may lead to impaired processing of social and/or emotional informations. These pathologies are likely to induce a lack of empathy that may result from impairments at different levels.
The objective is simply to study how others' emotions are understood and how this allows for regulation of personal behavior. This study is being carried out among patients seen for various health problems and who can make behavior changes. This study could help to understand some neurological diseases and thereby to identify them earlier and/or to better differentiate them.
調査の概要
状態
詳細な説明
Empathy is a fundamental concept in social interactions, whose function is to understand the emotions felt by others. According to De Waal (2008), it is a multidimensional concept that involves two processes :(i) a system of emotional contagion or affective resonance (the unconscious and automatic sharing of the emotion of others) that establishes the emotional component of empathy, (ii) the ability to take perspective, that is the ability to imagine the subjective world of the other distinguishing oneself from him, forming the cognitive component of empathy.
Several neurological diseases with behavioral disorders may lead to impaired processing of social and/or emotional information. These pathologies are likely to induce a lack of empathy that may result from impairments at different levels.
The main objective of this study is to examine empathy in patients suffering from stroke (various locations with an emphasis on frontal stroke), Fronto-temporal dementia, Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases. The final assessment criterion is the overall score on the scale of empathy.
The patient will firstly receive a medical examination and clinical data are collected (past medical history, clinical neurological examination, diagnosis, description of first symptoms, course, current treatments)and brain imaging data. After checking inclusion criteria, information letter and the consent form will be returned.
The second visit will consist in neuropsychological assessment: general intellectual efficiency, perceptual and visual-constructive abilities, memory, executive and an assessment of behavior and mood from questionnaires The third and final visit will allow passing experimental tests. The experimental part will include the following tests: (1) recognition of emotional facial expressions; (2) tasks of theory of mind ; (3) task of empathy for pain.
A control group will also perform the neuropsychological and experimental tests.
The duration of the study participation for eligible patients and controls will vary according to the delay between each visit (medical, neuropsychological and experimental) and is lower than 3 months. The study will take place from June 2009 to June 2013.
- Number of patients: 320
- Number of controls: 400
- Potential Benefits expected: criteria for early diagnosis and / or differential diagnosis based on the evaluation process of empathy; elaboration of new clinical tools assisting diagnosis.
研究の種類
入学 (実際)
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究場所
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Picardie
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Amiens、Picardie、フランス、80000
- CHU Amiens
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria (Controls):
- being over 18 years old
- speaking French
- in good general health
- affiliated to a welfare state
- given their informed consent in writing
Inclusion Criteria (Patients):
- 18 to 85 years old
- French speaker
- affiliated to a Welfare state
- written consent
- MMSE> 20
- no alexia, agraphia or illiteracy
- absence of diseases that can interfere with cognition (neoplasia, chronic alcoholism ...) of current or past neurological diseases other than those which justified the support nervous system (meningitis, encephalitis, brain injury, developmental disorders, deficits sensory or motor, epilepsy requiring treatment today ...), or of psychiatric disorder (except depression treated)
Exclusion Criteria (controls):
- pathological MMSE score
- insufficient acquisition of the alphabet
- reading, writing, arithmetic
- the presence of a visual deficit or hearing deficit disturbing the tests, paralysis of the dominant hand
- the presence of brain pathology interfering, neurological or psychiatric history
Exclusion Criteria (Patients):
- difficulties in reading, writing or illiteracy
- diseases that can interfere with cognition (neoplasia, chronic alcoholism ...)
- current or past neurological diseases other than those which justified the neurological consultation, Psychiatric pathology (except depression treated)
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的:診断
- 割り当て:なし
- 介入モデル:単一グループの割り当て
- マスキング:なし(オープンラベル)
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
介入・治療 |
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他の:behavioral and physiological tests
Computerized tests and Electrophysiological measurements
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Empathy ability
時間枠:3 months
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Empathy ability is a composite index associating performance on 3 tests (Facial emotion recognition, Theory of Mind and 'Faux pas')
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3 months
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二次結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Empathy for pain
時間枠:3 months
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pain rating on pictures when others are involved
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3 months
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pattern of empathy disorders according to the disease (stroke, Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease
時間枠:3 months
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3 months
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協力者と研究者
捜査官
- スタディチェア:Olivier Godefroy, PhD-MD、CHU Amiens
出版物と役立つリンク
一般刊行物
- Narme P, Mouras H, Roussel M, Devendeville A, Godefroy O. Assessment of socioemotional processes facilitates the distinction between frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer's disease. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2013;35(7):728-44. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2013.823911. Epub 2013 Aug 12.
- Narme P, Mouras H, Roussel M, Duru C, Krystkowiak P, Godefroy O. Emotional and cognitive social processes are impaired in Parkinson's disease and are related to behavioral disorders. Neuropsychology. 2013 Mar;27(2):182-92. doi: 10.1037/a0031522.
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研究の完了 (実際)
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本研究に関する用語
追加の関連 MeSH 用語
その他の研究ID番号
- PI09-PR-GODEFROY
- 2009-A00596-51 (その他の識別子:CHU)
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