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Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS

Emotion and Interoception Processing in ALS


Sponsor

University of Aarhus

Enrollment

180 participants

Start Date

Dec 15, 2023

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the emotional perception in people with ALS disease compared to people with other neuromuscular disease and healthy controls. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How people with ALS judge happy and angry faces and what their "insight" into these judgements are like * How their autonomic responses differ from the other two test group Participants will asked to judge if a face presents a happy emotion or angry emotion. Researchers will compare the ALS group responses with neuromuscular diseases group and healthy control group responses to see if the ALS group judge more happy faces than angry.


Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

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This clinical trial is studying Emotion Discrimination Task (EDT) for people with als, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other related conditions. The study is currently recruiting participants at 2 locations.

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Interventions

OTHEREmotion Discrimination Task (EDT)

It estimates the subjective bias and sensitivity in discriminating between happy and angry facial expressions of different intensities of emotional expression


Locations(2)

Aarhus University Hospital

Aarhus, Central Jutland, Denmark

Aalborg University Hospital

Aalborg, Region Nordjulland, Denmark

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