Clinical trials: Animal Phobia
Social Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety
Assessing Mechanisms of Anxiety Reduction in Animal-assisted Interventions
Adolescence and young adulthood is a critical period for the development of social anxiety, which is often linked to other mental health challenges such as depression, mood disorders, and substance abuse.
- Conditions
- Social Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder of Childhood
- Trial name
- NCT03249116
- Testing
- animal-assisted intervention, active control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tufts University
Specific Phobias
tDCS-Augmented Exposure Therapy for Pathological Fear
This double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial aims to test whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can be used to modulate fear extinction learning during exposure therapy for pathological fear, including…
- Trial name
- NCT03095482
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), In vivo exposure therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Specific Phobia, Anxiety Disorder
Online Psychological Treatment for Rat Phobia Guided by a Virtual Assistant
The research work proposes an exposure treatment through a virtual therapeutic assistant called Thera, that interacts verbally with the patient, to guide and control exposure therapies for phobias to small animals delivered…
- Trial name
- NCT05081323
- Testing
- Self-applied treatment for phobias
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Specific Phobia
Spider Phobia Opposite Action Treatment Study
This study tests the effectiveness of exposure therapy for fear of spiders as enhanced by the use of antagonistic or opposite actions during treatment.
- Trial name
- NCT02905279
- Testing
- Biofeedback Relaxation Training, Exposure Therapy, Exposure with Threat-Relevant Opposite Actions
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin