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Bodily Self-Awareness in the Schizophrenic Spectrum: A Series of Virtual Reality Experiments

Bodily Self-Awareness in the Schizophrenic Spectrum: A Series of Virtual Reality Experiments

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00024178
Enrollment
100
Registered
2021-04-26
Start date
2021-05-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

F20

Interventions

Group 1: Persons with schizophrenia: - Introduction Phase to get used to virtual reality googles and learn artifact free hand movements Multiple trials in counterbalanced order: - Experiment 1: Cl

Sponsors

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 60 Years

Inclusion criteria

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

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Subjective Sense of Ownership and Sense of Agency towards the virtual hand assessed via self-report questionnaire. Electrodermal activity (EDA) as implicit measure for the level of embodiment of the virtual hand

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Subjective measure of Micro- or Macrosomatognosia assessed via self-report questionnaire (for Resized Limb Illusion) Objective measure of Micro- or Macrosomatognosia assessed via hand size estimation task (for Resized Limb Illusion) Objective measure of proprioceptive drift assessed via a pointing task (for Supernumerary Limb Illusion)

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJulia Hackmann

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Universitätsklinikum Bonn

julia.hackmann@uni-bonn.de0228-287-15723

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026