Different types of motor learning in patients with early psychosis
Recruiting
- Conditions
- psychosisschizophrenia10039628
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
all patients (treated or untreated) with a diagnosis of *first episode psychosis*, suggestive for the schizophrenia are eligible to participate in the study. Lifetime between 16 and 40 years
Exclusion Criteria
Uncorrected visus disturbances, any neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases; pregnancy; other relevant psychiatric disorders. Subjects will also be excluded when they cannot understand the Dutch language sufficiently to understand the purposes and implications of the experiment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>1. To study whether motor learning as examined with three different types of<br /><br>motor learning (saccade adaptation, eye-blink conditioning, motor sequence<br /><br>learning) is changed in patients with schizophrenia<br /><br>2. To study whether motor learning is differentially impaired in the three<br /><br>assigned motor learning tasks in patients with schizophrenia</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>1. To study whether there is an impact of pharmacological treatment on<br /><br>different motor learning tasks<br /><br>2. To study whether there is an impact of actual psychopathology on different<br /><br>motor learning tasks</p><br>