Clinical trials: Acute Inflammatory Response to Psychological Stress
Acute Inflammatory Response to Psychological Stress
Biological Response to Brief Psychological Challenge
The investigators plan to conduct a crossover experimental trial examining physiological responses to a socio-evaluative speech task under laboratory conditions. Participants will attend two laboratory sessions.
- Trial name
- NCT04078035
- Testing
- Socio-evaluative speech task, Control, Quiet Rest
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Stress, Psychological, Inflammation
Does Propranolol Attenuate Inflammatory Responses to a Psychological Stressor?
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of propranolol will shed important light on how sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation influences psychological and inflammatory responses to acute stress.
- Conditions
- Stress, Psychological, Inflammation, Cortisol, Sympathetic Nervous System
- Trial name
- NCT02972554
- Testing
- Propanolol hydrochloride
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 92 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill