Research focus
Our aim is the development of instruments to assess the core domains of social cognition for use in research and clinical routine.
Projects
Normative data for and validation of the new social-cognitive instruments in cognitively and mentally healthy German-speaking adults.
In this project, we aim to (i) provide normative data for our newly developed social-cognitive instruments (tests and questionnaires)* and (ii) to validate them in a sample of 210 cognitively and mentally healthy German-speaking adults between the ages of 45 and 85.
If you are interested in participating in the study, please contact us via e-mail: forschungsteam-ms@felixplatter.ch.
Validation of BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM in German-speaking patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders
In this project, we aim to validate the BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM tests in German-speaking patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders and to generate cut-off scores between different patient groups. For this purpose, we aim to test patients with the following diagnoses:
- Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
- Alzheimer’s disease dementia
- Behavioural variant of Alzheimer disease
- Moderate or severe depressive episode according to ICD-10 criteria
If you are interested in taking part in this project as a site, please contact us via e-mail: marc.sollberger@felixplatter.ch
*BASIT-ER: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Emotion Recognition; BASIT-ToM: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Theory of Mind; FEIRT-CIC: Facial Emotion Intensity Rating Test – Congruent and Incongruent; RSMS: Revised Self-Monitoring Scale; BDQ: Behavioural Dysfunction Questionnaire
