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NCT05774860

Neural Bases of Social Cognitive Processing in Healthy Individuals

Recruiting now Last updated 8 April 2026
What this trial tests

trial testing No intervention in Healthy Volunteers in 200 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline
14 July 2018
Primary endpoint
30 April 2027
31 October 2027

Quick facts

Lead sponsorIstituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA
StatusRecruiting now
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment200
Start date14 July 2018
Primary completion30 April 2027
Estimated completion31 October 2027
Sites1 location across Italy

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA

Who can join

Adults 18 to 60, any sex, with Healthy Volunteers. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The goal of this single center non-interventional fMRI and EEG study is to assess the neural bases of social cognitive processing in healthy individuals, and whether/how their responsiveness is modulated by ageing. The main questions it aims to answer are: * are there specific brain regions where individual differences in social cognitive performance reflect well-established metrics of social cogntion such as empathy and mentalizing? * is there a relationship, at the behavioral and neural levels, between ageing-related changes in social cognitive performance and empathy/mentalizing? Healthy participants will be recruited for: * a behavioral assessment including multiple tests of social cognition focused on empathy and mentalizing; * for half participants: a fMRI session to collect data concerning a) brain activity associated with action observation and social cognitive processing, b) brain structural morphometriy (grey-matter volume/density), and c) brain structural connectivity (diffusion weighted imaging) * for half participants: a EEG session to collect data concerning brain responsiveness to social cognitive processing with higher temporal resolution than that afforded by fMRI. Results will provide an useful baseline for investigating alterations of social cognitive processing, and of their neural bases, in pathological conditions.

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