Perception of Music and Facial and Vocal Emotions in a Population With and Without Depression

NCT ID: NCT05143983

Last Updated: 2022-03-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-02-07
• Study Completion Date: 2022-09-01

Brief Summary

Depressed subjects display a cognitive bias of information processing and emotional self-regulation, which reinforces negative experiences more than positive ones, known as the negativity bias. The link between depressive disorder and negativity bias has been much studied in terms of genetic, neurobiology, structural and functional neuroanatomy and cognitive sciences. It has been admitted that depressed subjects show impairment of facial expressions and prosody recognition, and of implicit memory.

Induction of depressive or elated mood with musical excerpts listening in healthy subjects influences facial emotions perception, respectively by reducing or enhancing recognition skills. However, no study to date already explored the interest of music-induced positive mood for alleviating negativity bias in depressed elderly population.

Main objective : to assess the impact of exposure to positive valence musical excerpts, on evaluation of facial emotions intensity, in a population of elderly patients hospitalized for depression, compared to neutral valence music listening.

Secondary objectives : to assess the impact of exposure to positive valence musical excerpts, on facial and vocal emotions recognition, and on implicit memory of faces, compared to neutral valence music listening.

The same methodology is also applied in a sample of control participants over 65 years to study the mood induction effect by music in elderlies.

Detailed Description

The duration of the study, from first to last included subject, is estimated at 6 months, from January to June 2022. Each subject will participate for a period of 5 to 10 days.

Depressed group subjects will be pre-selected from all consecutive patients hospitalized or seen in consultation in geronto-psychiatric ward at Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, who agreed to participate in research. Patients will pass a basic cognitive task (MMSE) during the inclusion visit.

Healthy controls will be selected from relatives of patients admitted in Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, who agreed to participate in research.

Once included, subjects will be randomized, and will remain blind to study hypotheses until the study end.

Conditions

Depression

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

depressed subjects, positive valence music listening at first

patients with major depressive disorder will be recruited and will complete 3 cognitive tasks after listening to positive musical excepts (3 minutes)

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Positive valence music

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excerpts, with positive valence characteristics (fast tempo, major key). They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by an liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

depressed subjects, neutral valence music listening

patients with major depressive disorder will be recruited and will complete 3 cognitive tasks after listening to neutral valence musical excepts (3 minutes)

Group Type: OTHER

Neutral valence music

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excepts with neutral valence. They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer to a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by a liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

healthy controls, positive valence music listening

healthy individuals will be recruited and will complete 3 cognitive task after listening to positive valence musical excepts (3 minutes)

Group Type: OTHER

Positive valence music

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excerpts, with positive valence characteristics (fast tempo, major key). They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by an liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

healthy controls, neutral valence music listening

healthy individuals will be recruited and will complete 3 cognitive task after listening to neutral valence musical excepts (3 minutes)

Group Type: OTHER

Neutral valence music

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excepts with neutral valence. They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer to a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by a liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

Interventions

Positive valence music

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excerpts, with positive valence characteristics (fast tempo, major key). They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by an liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Neutral valence music

Subjects will have to listen to 3 minutes of unfamiliar musical excepts with neutral valence. They will be told to listen carefully in order to then answer to a short questionnaire. The listening will be followed by a liking scale (from 1 : not liked at all, to 5 : liked a lot) and a familiarity scale (from 1 : not familiar at all, to 5 : very familiar).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Men and Women between the ages of 18 and 60 years old
• Major depressive episode of moderate to strong intensity, according to DSM-5 criteria, diagnosed by a Psychiatrist for subjects with depression ; GDS < 5 for healthy subjects
• Being fluent in French

Exclusion Criteria

• - Neurodegenerative disorder
• Cognitive impairments (MMSE<26)
• Sensory loss not sufficiently corrected, compromising the perception of oral instructions or visual or auditory stimuli
• Impairment of awareness or attentional abilities restricting completion of cognitive tasks lasting 40 minutes.

And for Patients with depressive episode:

• Psychotic or catatonic features of current depressive episode
• Comorbid psychiatric disorder other than major unipolar depressive or anxiety disorders
• Current treatment by electroconvulsive therapy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hôpital le Vinatier

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jean-Michel DOREY, MD, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

CH le Vinatier

Locations

Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier

Bron, , France

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

France

Central Contacts

Jean-Michel DOREY, MD,PHD

Role: CONTACT

jean-michel.dorey@ch-le-vinatier.fr

0437915531 ext. +33

Lydie SARTELET

Role: CONTACT

lydie.sartelet@ch-le-vinatier.fr

+33437915531

Facility Contacts

Jean-Michel DOREY, MD, PHD

Role: primary

jean-michel.dorey@ch-le-vinatier.fr

04 37 91 51 00

Other Identifiers

2021-A01916-35

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id