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Instrumental assessment of movement disorders in antipsychotic naive patients with autism and healthy controls

Completed
Conditions
Autism
10012562
Registration Number
NL-OMON35557
Lead Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with autism
-High functioning medication naïve patients diagnosed autism spectrum disorders according to DSM-IV codes 299.00 or 299.80
-Age 12-22 year: addendum 6-22;2. Healthy controls
Healthy controls without psychiatric disorders according to DSM-IV code V71.09
-Age 12-22 year; addendum 6-22

Exclusion Criteria

-Use of antipsychotic medication, antidepressants or benzodiazepines, now or in the past.
-A medical, psychiatric (other than autism spectrum disorder) and / or neurological disorder (with the exception of epilepsy) that can produces movement disorders.
-DSM-criteria for substance abuse, other than nicotine of caffeine.
-IQ < 85; addendum IQ<70
-Participation of another medical study less than one month earlier
-Treatment with medication during the past 30 days that was not yet approved at the beginning of the study
-Severe life-threateningdisorders, if which the patients is most likley to die of within one year.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational non invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>Difference in prevalences of instrumental assessment of movement disorders<br /><br>among drug naive patients with autism compared with matched healthy controls </p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>Difference in prevalences of clinical assessment of movement disorders among<br /><br>drug naive patients with autism compared with matched healthy controls </p><br>
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