Bodily Self-Awareness in the Schizophrenic Spectrum: A Series of Virtual Reality Experiments
- Conditions
- F20Schizophrenia
- Registration Number
- DRKS00024178
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Universitätsklinikum Bonn
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
For all groups: Age between 18 and 60 years.
For patients with schizophrenia: Diagnosis according to DSM-V
Participants with high schizotypy: sO-LIFE score higher or equal 22
Participants with low schizotypy: sO-LIFE score lower or equal 11
Exclusion Criteria
For all groups: Strongly limited vision or hearing ability, neurological diseases, moderate or severe substance use disorder according to DSM-V, acute or past moderate or severe traumatic brain injury, people endangering others or themselves, legal incapacity and incapacity to consent
Additionally for healthy controls: Current psychiatric disorder or first-degree family history of psychotic disorder.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Subjective Sense of Ownership and Sense of Agency towards the virtual hand assessed via self-report questionnaire.<br>Electrodermal activity (EDA) as implicit measure for the level of embodiment of the virtual hand<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Subjective measure of Micro- or Macrosomatognosia assessed via self-report questionnaire (for Resized Limb Illusion)<br>Objective measure of Micro- or Macrosomatognosia assessed via hand size estimation task (for Resized Limb Illusion)<br>Objective measure of proprioceptive drift assessed via a pointing task (for Supernumerary Limb Illusion)