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Emotions and speech production

Researchers are using brain scans to investigate how emotional cues affect speaking in people with and without Parkinson's.

Learning by observing or collecting information · Study reference: DRKS00015727

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2019-05-27

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: all

Inclusion criteria: Right-handed, first language: German, Nobody suffered from a neurological or psychiatric disease with the exception of M. Parkinson in Arm 3 Exclusion criteria: left-handedness, seriousness articulation disorders, claustrophobia, regular intake of centrally active medication or drugs (exception specific treatment for M. Parkinson in Arm 3), tattoos, nonremovable piercing and MR-specific contraindications (e.g. cochlea implant or metal parts in body like retainer), pregnancy
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Official study title

The influence of emotional stimuli on Speech production by healthy young and elderly Volunteers and Patient with Parkinson's disease - a longitudinale fMRI-study - EMONAMING

Short title used by the registry

The influence of emotional stimuli on Speech production by healthy young and elderly Volunteers and Patient with Parkinson's disease - a longitudinale fMRI-study

Original description

Intervention: Group 1: The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of neutral and negative stimuli on speech production in healthy volunteers of age 20-30 and 60-75 years and Parkinson's subjects. Each of the three groups of subjects comprises 25 subjects, whose brain activity is measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the Neuroimaging Unit of the University of Oldenburg. During the measurements, the subjects are shown photographs of everyday objects and emotional facial expressions (""neutral"" or ""disgusted""). At first, the subject is presented a facial expression for the generation of emotions. Immediately following is the presentation of an everyday item, which should be named (picture naming task). This paradigm is a ""dual task paradigm"". The measurements will take place in the period from May to August on several days of the week between 8.00 - 16.30 o clock. The time per participant is two hours. Arm 1: Young healthy volunteers Group 2: Elderly healthy volunteers Group 3: M. Parkinson Volunteers Primary outcome: Method: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Brain activity during picture naming, modulated by emotional processing, as measured by fMRI Secondary outcome: The linguistic utterances which are taken after the MRI scan are examined for loudness and latency.

Conditions reported: Healthy volunteers G20;Parkinson disease

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Study type
Observational
Interventions
Group 1: The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of neutral and negative stimuli on speech production in healthy volunteers of age 20-30 and 60-75 years and Parkinson's subjects. Each of the three groups of subjects comprises 25 subjects, whose brain activity is measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the Neuroimaging Unit of the University of Oldenburg. During the measurements, the subjects are shown photographs of everyday objects and emotional facial expressions (""neutral"" or ""disgusted""). At first, the subject is presented a facial expression for the generation of emotions. Immediately following is the presentation of an everyday item, which should be named (picture naming task). This paradigm is a ""dual task paradigm"". The measurements will take place in the period from May to August on several days of the week between 8.00 - 16.30 o clock. The time per participant is two hours. Arm 1: Young healthy volunteers Group 2: Elderly healthy volunteers Group 3: M. Parkinson Volunteers
Phases
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Sponsor
Universitätsklinik für Neurologie Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oldenburg
Start date reported by registry
2019-05-27 (reported)

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Maximilian Corsten · +49 171 2853974 · maximilian.corsten@uni-oldenburg.de

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Germany

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