psychosis schizophrenia
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
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
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. To study whether motor learning as examined with three different types of motor learning (saccade adaptation, eye-blink conditioning, motor sequence learning) is changed in patients with schizophrenia 2. To study whether motor learning is differentially impaired in the three assigned motor learning tasks in patients with schizophrenia | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. To study whether there is an impact of pharmacological treatment on different motor learning tasks 2. To study whether there is an impact of actual psychopathology on different motor learning tasks | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed