Neural and Behavioural Bases of Action Simulation

Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Healthy Participants

Treatments: Device: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Sham

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06836297

NBBAS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to understand the neural and behavioural bases of action simulation and its links with action execution in healthy volunteers.

Hypotheses: Action simulation recruits neural networks that are largely similar to those activated by action execution, with some differences to avoid executing a movement while observing/imagining it.

Participants will be tested with TMS while doing motor imagery or action observation.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy adult volunteers (more than 18 years old)

Exclusion criteria

• Participants taking anti-epileptic drugs
• pregnant or breastfeeding women cannot participate in this study
• people with a pacemaker
• people with a cochlear implant
• people with a metal part in the brain or any other medical implant in their body (pump, neurostimulator, valve,) cannot take part in this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

For some experiments, all participants will take part in all experimental conditions. For other experiments, participants will be randomly assigned to different groups with different conditions (e.g. TMS sham vs. TMS test).

Treatment:

Device: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Sham