56
Participants
Start Date
April 30, 2014
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2016
Testing of emotional communication ability
Assessment of comprehension and expression of emotional facial and prosodic expressions and assessment of emotional reactivity via ratings of emotionally evocative pictures and words.
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain
Cerebellar participants who score at least 1 and a 1/2 standard deviations below the mean on the Florida Affect Battery and who have no contra-indications to scanning will be given an MRI. Healthy control participants who are willing and able to be scanned will also be given an MRI of the brain to use for analysis comparison.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville
University of Florida
OTHER
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
NIH