Clinical trials: Facial Emotion Recognition
Depressive Disorder, Major
Probing Prefrontal Cortex Hemodynamic Alterations for Major Depression Disorder
Major depression disorder (MDD) has high estimated lifetime prevalence rates of 16.6%. Currently, the diagnosis for the MDD mainly depends on patients' reports of symptoms, observed behaviors and disease course.
- Trial name
- MDD (NCT03595020)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Xijing Hospital
Oxytocin
The Influence of Oxytocin on Socio-communicative Sensitivity
Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide that acts as a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator in the brain. Previous studies have shown that intranasal administration of OT improves social cognition and behavior (e.g. emotion recognition).
- Trial name
- NCT03096249
- Testing
- Oxytocin
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
Post-stroke Depression
To Explore the Neural Processing Mechanism of Cerebellum Involved in Facial Expression Recognition Based on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Experiment 1: Utilizing a transcranial magnetic stimulation-electroencephalography/functional near-infrared spectroscopy system, the investigators aim to determine whether transcranial magnetic stimulation of the cerebellum can…
- Trial name
- NCT06860451
- Testing
- TMS
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University
Parkinson's Disease
Facial Expression Recognition and Mirror Neurons in Parkinson's Disease
After few years of evolution, patients with Parkinson's disease may develop apathy, with different degrees of severity. Apathy is characterized by a loss of interest for the others and for activities.
- Trial name
- NCT01315405
- Testing
- Emotional facial expression recognition tests
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Multiple Sclerosis, Depression
Depression and Facial Identity Recognition Abilities in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
Cognitive and emotional disorders are often encountered in multiple sclerosis (MS) cases: depressive and bipolar disorders are twice as frequent as in general population.
- Trial name
- SepDep (NCT02468765)
- Testing
- Neuropsychological and emotional evaluation with monitoring
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lille Catholic University
Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome
Facial Expression Recognition of Emotion and Categorization of Emotional Words in Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome
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…
- Trial name
- NCT00664300
- Testing
- Facial expression recognition of emotion
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 (Disorder), Schizo Affective Disorder
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Using Tdcs of the Third (of Many) Visual Pathways
This study investigates the ability of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied over the motion processing area of the brain (area MT) to improve face emotion recognition (FER) ability.
- Trial name
- ButtomVP (NCT07469384)
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Facial Palsy, Surgery
Brain Plasticity and Emotion Recognition in Patients With Facial Palsy Before & After Surgical Rehabilitation: MEG Study
Facial palsy (of one hemiface) affects the sensorimotor representation of the face of the patients, and possibly also their mental representation of emotional facial expressions.
- Trial name
- FACE_REHAB_MEG (NCT06809127)
- Testing
- Behavioral tasks with MEG recording
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Essential Tremor
Decision-making and Emotion Recognition in Essential Tremor
The present study aims at investigating cognitive functions requiring orbitofrontal control, namely decision-making and facial emotion recognition.
- Trial name
- EMOTREM (NCT01223144)
- Testing
- Iowa Gambling Task and Ekman facial recognition test
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 39 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Improving ToM in Children With ASD Through VPT Training: Behavioral and fNIRS Study
This study aims to employ a longitudinal tracking research to investigate the effects of a visual perspective taking intervention on the development of theory of mind in children with autism.
- Trial name
- NCT06196060
- Testing
- Visual perspective taking training, Block building training, Thought-bubble training
- Where
- 3 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nanjing Normal University
Anorexia Nervosa
Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa
Altered emotional processing is reported in Anorexia Nervosa. However, this capability is generally measured through explicit measures, like self-report questionnaires and facial emotion recognition tasks.
- Trial name
- FER_AN (NCT06299293)
- Testing
- Facial Emotion Recognition Test
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Dyspnea Invasive Mechanical Ventilation-associated
Dyspnea Facial Recognition During Weaning
Critically ill patients are exposed to many sources of discomfort and traumatic experiences, especially if they require invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV).
- Trial name
- DYS-FEREA (NCT05163275)
- Testing
- Video recording and EMG
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 85 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Healthy Controls
Temporal Interference Stimulation for Social Cognition
The long-term goal of this project is to evaluate whether a procedure termed transcranial interference stimulation (tIS) may be useful in the future in the treatment of severe neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.
- Trial name
- TISSC (NCT06607432)
- Testing
- Transcranial Interference Stimulation (tIS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Schizophrenia
An Evaluation of a Psychoeducation Program in Individuals Diagnosed With Schizophrenia
This study was conducted to explore the effect on social functionality of the psychoeducation program organized to guide individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to identifying and recognize emotions in facial expressions.
- Trial name
- NCT03865186
- Testing
- Psychoeducation Program, no intervention
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- Kırıkkale University
BECTS, Epilepsy, Rolandic
Emotion Recognition in Benign Epilepsy of Childhood With Centro-Temporal Spikes (BECTS)
The social processes depend on complex cognitive mechanisms, which involve mainly the frontal and temporal lobe regions. Patients with early onset frontal and temporal lobe lesions might later develop important deficits in social…
- Trial name
- BECTS (NCT03465566)
- Testing
- IDS;MMSPE;CDI 2;CBCL;tests of facial expression evaluation
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
Brain Markers
Brain and Eye Markers of Facial Expression Recognition and Disorders Associated with Autistic Symptoms
In everyday life, it is necessary to adjust one's behavior and reactions in order to interact and communicate with others in an appropriate manner.
- Trial name
- MARQUEURS (NCT05635812)
- Testing
- Neuropsychological assessment, EEG experimentation, Oculometry experimentation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Alzheimer's Dementia (AD), Family Caregivers
Long-term Follow-up of Patients Included in the EYE-TAR(MA) Study.
EYE-TAR(MA)-Follow-Up is a non-interventionel, long-term follow-up study in subjects who participated to the study referred as EYE-TAR(MA) (NCT04730440) EYE-TAR(MA)-Follow-Up aims to evaluate the long-term impacts of the Training…
- Trial name
- NCT05254873
- Testing
- Long term follow-up
- Where
- Monaco
- Volunteers
- 7 people
- Sponsor
- Association de Recherche Bibliographique pour les Neurosciences
Alzheimer's Dementia, Parkinson Disease(PD)
Eye Gaze Strategies During Facial Emotion Recognition in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Links With Neuropsychiatric Disorders (EYE-ToM Study)
It is commonly admitted that social cognition impairment, like deficit in facial emotion recognition or misinterpretation of others' intentions (Theory of Mind), are associated with social behavior disorders.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer's Dementia, Parkinson Disease(PD), Fronto-Temporal Dementia
- Trial name
- EYE-ToM (NCT04748263)
- Testing
- No intervention. Only survey and normal use of eye-tracking
- Volunteers
- 74 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace
Autism, Psychotic Disorders
Brain and Oculometric Markers of Emotional Facial Expression Recognition Deficits
Disorders in the recognition of emotional facial expressions are part of the social cognition disorders described in several diseases.
- Trial name
- FERmarkers (NCT05501405)
- Testing
- Electroencephalogram and eye-tracking recordings
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hôpital le Vinatier
Artificial Intelligence, Facial Expression
Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Postoperative Pain Based on Facial Expression
Patients' subjective complaints about pain intensity are difficult to objectively evaluate, and may lead to inadequate pain management, especially in patients with communication difficulties.
- Conditions
- Artificial Intelligence, Facial Expression, Analgesia, Pain, Postoperative
- Trial name
- NCT05477303
- Testing
- taking a picture of a painful facial expression
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital