Instrumental assessment of movement disorders in antipsychotic naive patients with autism and healthy controls
- Conditions
- Autism10012562
- 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
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
-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
Name Time Method <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
Name Time Method <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>