Clinical trials: HPA
Phenylketonuria
Low Phenylalanine Diet for Mothers With Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare genetic condition. If not treated, PKU can cause severe mental retardation. Women with PKU are advised to eat a special diet when pregnant to prevent mental retardation in their children.
- Trial name
- NCT00065299
- Testing
- Restricted phenylalanine diet
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 572 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria
Hyperphenylalaninemia in Cerebral Malaria
The purpose of this study is to see if children, who develop coma from malaria, are not making enough of a vitamin-like chemical, tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), which is required for the brain to function normally.
- Trial name
- NCT00338520
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 285 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Stress Reaction; Acute
Racial Discrimination and Stress Response
The goal of this study is to learn about whether ethnic minority adolescents' racial discrimination experience is related to dysregulated biological responses to subtle racism, and how the relationship may be attenuated or…
- Trial name
- NCT05820659
- Testing
- peer rejection task, conversation about peer rejection, and impossible puzzle task
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 178 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Western Kentucky University
Phenylketonuria
Response to Phenylketonuria to Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)is effective in treating patients with PKU.
- Trial name
- NCT00244218
- Testing
- tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic, Healthy
Study of the Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis and Its Role in Major Depression
Major depression represents a major public health problem worldwide and in the U.S. Fifteen percent of the U.S. population has depression at some point in life (40 million individuals).
- Conditions
- Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic, Healthy, Mood Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT00001479
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Mental Disorder, Child
Association Between a Biological Pattern of Dysregulation of the HPA Axis and Mental Disorders in Children Exposed to Early Life Stress
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an association between a biological pattern of dysregulation of the HPA axis and mental disorders in children exposed to early life stress.
- Trial name
- ESASP (NCT04363112)
- Testing
- Mini Kid II
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Brest
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Brain Receptor Function in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The purpose of this study is to examine the function of cortisol receptors in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Patients with PTSD have neurobiological dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function.
- Trial name
- NCT00046553
- Testing
- RU-486 (Mifepristone)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 97 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Stress, Trauma
Exploring PTSD Symptoms, Barriers and Facilitators to Mindfulness
The purpose of this study is to investigate justice-involved Black/African American female adolescents' (JI BAFAs; N=35) self-reported outcomes: stress, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), recidivism, etc., as well as their…
- Conditions
- Stress, Trauma, PTSD, HPA
- Trial name
- NCT06311188
- Testing
- ITR Healing intervention
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Autism Spectrum Disorder With Intellectual Deficiency
Recording Stress Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorders
The goal of this observational study is to learn how stress affects children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Trial name
- STRESSDEFIS (NCT07535801)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universite Cote d'Azur
Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Fragile X Syndrome
Early Check: Expanded Screening in Newborns
Early Check provides voluntary screening of newborns for a selected panel of conditions. The study has three main objectives: 1) develop and implement an approach to identify affected infants, 2) address the impact on infants and…
- Conditions
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Fragile X Syndrome, Fragile X - Premutation, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Trial name
- NCT03655223
- Testing
- Confirmatory Testing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RTI International
Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia
Towards Routine HPA-screening In Pregnancy to Prevent FNAIT
Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is the most common cause of severe thrombocytopenia in otherwise healthy born neonates.
- Trial name
- HIP (NCT04067375)
- Testing
- Clinical data collection.
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 3,660 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Leiden University Medical Center
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Go For It: to Improve Levels of Daily Physical Activity and to Reduce the Sedentary Life Style of Adolescents With CP
Long hours of daily sitting and lack of Physical Activity (PA) are risk factors for morbidity and mortality. People with movement disabilities, including adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) tend to lead a sedentary life styl and…
- Trial name
- NCT02978469
- Testing
- Life style changing: reducing sedentary behavior
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center