Assessment of Empathetic Process by Scanpath Study of an Artwork (EYE-EMPATH)

Princess Grace Hospital Center (CHPG)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Dementia; Fronto-Temporal Dementia; Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Eye-Tracking / Neuropsychological evaluations

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04665622

EYE-EMPATH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Analysis of gaze patterns during social cognition tasks and standardised exploration of a specific artwork, between elderly subjects without cognitive disorders and subjects with neurodegenerative diseases such as Fronto-Temporal Dementia, Alzheimer's Dementia or Parkinson's Disease

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or Female.
• 60 years old and above.
• Sufficient written and oral expression in French.
• Benefit from French or Monaco Social security.
• Written informed consent signed by the patient.
• For the control group: voluntary subjects, without cognitive impairment.
• For the FTD / AD / PD groups: patients diagnosed with one of these diseases, and volunteers to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• General anaesthesia within 3 months.
• Ophthalmological problems preventing a video-oculography examination.
• Oculomotor disorders such as "fixation disorders" or "ocular tracking disorders".
• History of stroke.
• Cognitive disorders of the type: visual agnosia, visuo-spatial disorder, visuo-perceptual disorder or aphasia.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 4 patient groups

Fronto-temporal Dementia

Other group

Description:

10 subjects

Treatment:

Other: Eye-Tracking / Neuropsychological evaluations

Alzheimer's Dementia

Other group

Description:

20 subjects

Treatment:

Other: Eye-Tracking / Neuropsychological evaluations

Parkinson's Disease

Other group

Description:

20 subjects

Treatment:

Other: Eye-Tracking / Neuropsychological evaluations

Healthy volunteers

Other group

Description:

20 subjects

Treatment:

Other: Eye-Tracking / Neuropsychological evaluations