The goal of this observational study is to learn about the emotional perception in people with ALS disease compared to people with other neuromuscular disease and healthy controls. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* How people with ALS judge happy and angry faces and what their "insight" into these judgements are like * How their autonomic responses differ from the other two test group Participants will asked to judge if a face presents a happy emotion or angry emotion.
Researchers will compare the ALS group responses with neuromuscular diseases group and healthy control group responses to see if the ALS group judge more happy faces than angry.
ALS patients, ambulant and hospitalized
Able to give informed consent
Diagnosed with ALS or probable ALS according to the existing revision of the El Escorial Criteria 21,22.
Patients with a peripheral neuromuscular disease, ambulant and hospitalized
All Participants
Other severe medical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders
Visual impairment to an extent that interferes with the ability to perform of the test
Severe motor or cognitive deficits, to the extent that the test-task cannot be performed
University of Aarhus
Lead sponsor
Aarhus University Hospital
Collaborator
Aalborg University Hospital
Collaborator