The German Version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Cognition

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03450356

2017-01193 me15Sollberger;

Details and patient eligibility

About

Goal of the current project is the development of a German-language test battery for a realistic investigation of core areas of social issues Cognition (emotion, perspective taking). This test battery should be used in the investigation of patients with neuropsychological disorders. Investigators plan to establish a German-version of the TASIT that is more sensitive and shorter in administration than the original TASIT.

Enrollment: 240 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• from the age of 35,
• at least 7 years of education
• understand German or Swiss German
• Subjective statement of good health
• Signed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) value below the fifth percentile of subjectively cognitive healthy persons
• signs of depressive mood (Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score ≥ 5 points or Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) ≥ 10 points)
• Severe sensory deficits with potentially negative influence test results
• Severe motor deficits with potentially negative influence test results
• Systemic diseases or brain diseases with potentially negative Influence on test results
• St. n. Traumatic brain injury (with unconsciousness of at least 30 minutes)
• Severe pain with potentially negative influence on the test results
• Psychiatric problems like alcohol dependence syndrome or Schizophrenia according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)®-5
• Regular use of drugs with potentially negative Influence on the test results with the exception of taking Benzodiazepines at night
• general anesthesia less than 3 months ago