Clinical trials: Anhedonia, Social
Psychosis
Determining the Role of Social Reward Learning in Social Anhedonia
This is a clinical trial study that aims to evaluate the specificity of the relationship between reduced sensitivity to social reward and social anhedonia at both behavioral and neural levels.
- Trial name
- SAMI (NCT05617898)
- Testing
- Motivational Interviewing, Nutrition Didactic Training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 152 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
ASD
Proof of Mechanism Study for the Treatment of Social Anhedonia in ASD
This project will use the experimental medicine approach of a Phase IIa Proof of Mechanism 16-week, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of L-DOPA versus placebo administration in combination with a 16 week social skills…
- Trial name
- ACEP4 (NCT03243552)
- Testing
- Social Skills Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Anorexia Nervosa
The Experience of Affective Touch in Anorexia Nervosa
The aim of the present research will be to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with AN and healthy women while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of affective…
- Trial name
- AffTouch_AN (NCT05756530)
- Testing
- Affective touch paradigm
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia), Public Speaking Anxiety
Reward Processing and Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
The investigators are conducting a clinical trial of therapy for public speaking anxiety. There are many eligibility criteria, but the main ones are that participants need to be socially anxious and have public speaking anxiety.
- Conditions
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia), Public Speaking Anxiety, Anhedonia, ANXIETY DISORDERS (or Anxiety and Phobic Neuroses)
- Trial name
- METER (NCT06776991)
- Testing
- Positive Affect Treatment - Behavioral (PAT-B), Relaxation Treatment, Exposure Therapy
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 94 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective Disorder, First Episode Psychosis (FEP)
French Minds Cohort: a French Longitudinal and Multimodal Cohort of Patients With Major Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Healthy Controls
The goal of this study is to learn whether people living with severe psychiatric disorders can be grouped into more homogeneous subgroups, across usual diagnostic categories, based on two key dimensions: social withdrawal and…
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective Disorder, First Episode Psychosis (FEP), Bipolar Disorder (BD), Major Depressive Disorder (MDD
- Trial name
- FRENCH-MINDS (NCT07881016)
- Testing
- 3T Brain MRI, Biological Sampling, Clinical, Cognitive and Digital Assessments
- Where
- 17 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fondation FondaMental
Anxiety, Depression
Stanford RAD-AT Study (Research on Anxiety and Depression - Anhedonia Treatment)
This research study is aimed at understanding behaviors and brain circuits that relate to anxiety and depression. Our goal is to learn which circuits of the brain are involved in anxiety and how these circuits might affect daily…
- Trial name
- NCT02220309
- Testing
- Pramipexole Oral Tablet
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 167 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Social Anhedonia, Social Function Impairment
Clinical and Neurocomputational Effects of Behavioral Activation in Veterans With Impaired Social Functioning
Poor psychosocial functioning, including social disconnection, is common and disabling among Veterans, and often fails to improve following the best available evidence-based treatments, particularly if more severe pathology is…
- Trial name
- NCT07697001
- Testing
- Behavioral Activation (BA), Supportive Care Therapy (SCT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 136 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Obesity
The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity
The aim of the present research is to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with obesity and healthy women, while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of…
- Trial name
- AffTouch_OB (NCT05768685)
- Testing
- Affective touch paradigm
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Healthy
Chatbot Intervention Effects on Social and Monetary Incentive Processing in Anhedonia
The main aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a Motivational Interviewing-based artificial intelligence chatbot on social incentive processing in college students with elevated levels of depression and…
- Trial name
- NCT07665242
- Testing
- MI Chatbot Interaction, Active Control Chatbot Interaction
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Schizophrenia, Depression
Validating Reward-related Biomarkers (RTOC)
Deficits or abnormalities in reward processing are present in a number of psychiatric disorders. The overarching objective of the study is to conduct initial validation work towards optimising three experimental tasks - which…
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Depression, Motivation, Anhedonia, Physical
- Trial name
- RTOC (NCT04024371)
- Testing
- Self-rating Questionnaires, Measures of Reward processing/reinforcement learning, Additional Schizophrenia-specific Questionnaires and Interviews
- Where
- 4 sites in Germany, Greece and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University