NCT04957576Not yet recruiting
The Disrupted Bodily Self of Patients
This is Not my Body: the Disrupted Bodily Self of Neurological Patients
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Some pathological clinical conditions can strongly perturb the link between body and self. One disorder of body representation is the feeling of disownership over body parts, experienced by neurological patients usually after a stroke affecting the right hemisphere. Body disownership and more complex somatoparaphrenic delusions are described as rare in the scientific literature and no clear consensus about their features, brain correlates and recovery mechanisms are on record. Recently, the investigators have discovered that using new sensitive tools it is possible to unveil the presence of covert disownership deficits in patients, who seemed completely unimpaired at the standard assessment. Within a bigger exploratory study of this covert disownership in stroke patients, the aim is to implement a proof-of-concept rehabilitation study, using a multisensory stimulation paradigm, with the hypothesis that a positive remission of disownership will be found and that this treatment can influence both the implicit and explicit features of disownership.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 5 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 Jun 2021
- Start date
- Jan 2027
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2029
- Lead sponsor
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04957576
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 5
- From Jan 2027 to the primary completion date, Dec 2029
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Failure to meet the inclusion criteria ;
- Precedent additional neurological disorder and/or current or precedent psychiatric disease.
Other
- Presence of general cognitive deficits and/or suspicious of possible cognitive deficits;
- Presence of difficulty in task's comprehension;
- Impossibility to sustain a research session of at least 45minutes (e.g., attentional lability);
Who the study is looking for
- First neurological event, affecting the right hemisphere or the left hemisphere (stroke);
- Structural images of the brain lesion available (magnetic resonance or tomographic scans);
- Full somato-sensory deficit affecting the left hand;
- Good (or corrected) visual acuity;
- Good proficiency in French;
- Right-handed
Age in the registry: 20 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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