New study probes hidden language struggles in psychosis patients
NCT ID NCT06036316
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at language difficulties in people with psychosis, including those at risk, experiencing a first episode, or diagnosed with schizophrenia. Researchers will give a full language test to 90 patients and compare results with a healthy control group. The goal is to better understand how language problems relate to memory and other symptoms, which could improve future care.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 90 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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16 to 55 years
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * All Groups: * Patient affiliated or entitled to a social security scheme * Patient having received informed information on the study and having co-signed, with the investigator, a consent to participate in the study * For minor participants, at least one of the parents or holders of parental authority having been informed of the study, having received the information note relating to it and not having objected to the participation of his or her child * Native language: French * ARMS and FEP Patient Group: * Age between 16 and 35 years old * Present the criteria for EMRP or FEP as defined by the Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental State (CAARMS) or present the criteria for Disorders of the course of thought to the items of the Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument (SPI-A) * Patients with schizophrenia group: * Age between 16 and 55 years old * Patient with diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, as defined by DSM V (American Psychiatric Association, 2015) * Present the criteria for Disorganization of Speech and Formal Thought Disorder as defined by the Thinking, Language and Communication (TLC) Rating Scale. * Healthy Volunteers Group: * Age between 16 and 55 years old * Parental authorization (of both parents) to participate in the study for minor patients Exclusion Criteria: * All groups: * Pregnant, parturient or nursing mother * Person deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision * Person in a life-threatening emergency * Adult subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice) * Adult person unable to express their consent and who is not the subject of a legal protection measure * Impairment of the subject making it difficult, if not impossible, for them to participate in the trial or to understand the information given to them * Abuse or dependence of any substance according to DSM V criteria excluding cannabis * Healthy Volunteers Group: * Evolving psychiatric pathology (axis I of the DSM IV, measured at the MINI) excluding anxiety disorder * Presence of developmental disorder of oral language or written language revealed on clinical examination.
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Locations
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Centre Psychothérapeutique de Nancy
RECRUITINGLaxou, France, 54520, France
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