Study for the Quantification in Ecological Conditions of Sensorimotor and Dysexecutive Disorders in Cerebral Palsy Patients (SDS2)

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Dysexecutive Syndrome

Treatments

Other: Measurement of facial expression of emotions

Device: Measurement of sensorimotor abilities

Behavioral: Chocolate cake

Behavioral: Lego model

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05017051

2018PPRC34

2021-A00087-34 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Executive functions are defined as the mental functions necessary for an individual to adapt to a complex or new environment that requires freedom from automatic and routine behavior. Deficits in executive functions are described under the term "dysexecutive syndrome", and call into question the quality of social and professional life as well as the autonomy of patients.

The usual methods of identifying dysexecutive syndrome are based essentially on batteries of neuropsychological tests known as "paper and pencil". However, these tests may lack sensitivity, in that they assess the patient in a very structured setting, very different from real life conditions, which are full of distractions and choices to be made.

Evaluations on real tasks are more rarely used but have the advantage of observing the difficulties encountered by a patient in everyday life.

Two tests of this type have been set up in the Neurology Department of the Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Percy, and are integrated into the routine care of patients with a dysexecutive syndrome.

For this purpose, a room in the department has been set up as a studio in order to reproduce as much as possible an everyday life environment, in which executive functions, fine motor skills, neurovegetative functions, emotional state, posture, locomotor skills and visual information capture can be measured ecologically.

Enrollment

442 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with a dysexecutive syndrome OR healthy subjects
Over 18 years-old

Exclusion criteria

Patients
- Psychiatric pathology (except for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Pregnant or breastfeeding woman
Healthy subjects
- Neurologic or psychiatric pathology
- Pregnant or breastfeeding woman