Clinical trials: Behavior And Behavior Mechanism
Obesity, Weight Loss
Behavioral Mechanism of Energy Compensation With Exercise
Over 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese, putting them at risk for many chronic diseases including diabetes. Exercise is commonly used as a weight loss and weight loss maintenance strategy.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Weight Loss, Eating Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT04651218
- Testing
- exericse
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kyle Flack
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mental Disorders
Physiological Mechanisms of Therapeutic Horseback Riding Intervention Effects in a Psychiatric Population of ASD Youth
This randomized control trial (RCT) seeks to assess the mechanisms underlying Therapeutic Horseback Riding's (THR) previously observed significant positive effects on ASD youth, particularly those with co-occurring psychiatric…
- Trial name
- NCT04606966
- Testing
- Therapeutic Horseback Riding, Barn Activity, Hybrid
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 236 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Sexual Behavior, Sexual Assault
Study of Long-term Efficacy and Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of a Web-based Sexual and Relationship Health Promotion Program With Young Adult Community College Students
Community college students are an underserved and at-risk population in terms of their sexual and relationship health. This is a three-arm randomized control trial to evaluate the long-term efficacy of a web-based sexual and…
- Conditions
- Sexual Behavior, Sexual Assault, Violence, Domestic
- Trial name
- NCT04950686
- Testing
- Media Aware for Young Adults, Health Aware for Young Adults
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,184 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Innovation Research & Training
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Mechanisms of Upper Airway Obstruction
The current study is designed to examine underlying mechanisms of action of lingual muscles in the maintenance of airway patency during sleep.
- Trial name
- DISE-CAD (NCT04322097)
- Testing
- Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
Brain Mechanisms of Human Motivation
This study aims to investigate reward learning across the mood disorder spectrum and to investigate the predictive validity of reward learning for subsequent symptom severity.
- Trial name
- NCT01976975
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 270 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
Stress, Learning, Spatial
Influence of Stress on Encoding and Prediction
The purpose of this study is to investigate the neural mechanisms by which acute stress influences statistical learning and episodic encoding.
- Trial name
- NCT05920161
- Testing
- Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Test, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Translational Research to Inform Interventions for Challenging Behavior
This project is meant to identify relations between the reinforcement histories of 80 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the prevalence of extinction bursts.
- Trial name
- NCT04842500
- Testing
- Demand Informed Moderator Analysis
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 86 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Overweight and Obesity
SMART 2.0: Social Mobile Approaches to Reducing weighT in Young Adults
The SMART 2.0 study is a 24-month trial designed to evaluate the impact of the intervention with technology and personal health coaching or with technology alone on objectively measured weight among overweight young adults in a…
- Trial name
- SMART 2 (NCT03907462)
- Testing
- SMART 2.0
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 638 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Smoking
Neuroimaging Reward, Behavioral Treatment, and Smoking Cessation
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effects of a smoking cessation intervention combining behavioral treatment with low nicotine cigarettes on neuroimaging measures of reward function and smoking cessation outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT02927847
- Testing
- Nicotine Patch, SPECTRUM Nicotine Research Cigarettes (.03 mg), Behavioral Activation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maggie M Sweitzer, PhD
Exercise, Energy
The Comparison of Energy in Take and Body Weight EXERCISE
This study will compare the effect of two doses of exercise on energy intake and body weight. The comparison will be between three groups; two exercise groups and a control group.
- Conditions
- Exercise, Energy, Body Weight
- Trial name
- E-MECHANIC (NCT01264406)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 198 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Stress, Psychological, Motivation
Brain and Stress Study
Motivational deficits such as anhedonia are core to several psychiatric disorders and underlie significant functional impairment.
- Trial name
- BASS (NCT06044090)
- Testing
- Minocycline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder
Network Control TMS fMRI
This study uses different types of functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) to generate individual transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) targets.
- Conditions
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, Working Memory
- Trial name
- NCT05736458
- Testing
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), High controllability TMS target
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Smoking Cessation
Mechanisms of Mindfulness for Smoking Cessation
The purpose of this study is to understand brain mechanisms of app-based mindfulness training in smokers ages 21 to 65 years.
- Trial name
- NCT02943499
- Testing
- App/Training, Smartphone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Stress, Behavior
Brain and Meditation (BAM) Study
This study is a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of an app-based meditation program on perceived stress and behavioral correlates of stress with known neurobiological correlates.
- Trial name
- NCT05215314
- Testing
- mHealth Meditation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Overweight and Obesity, Eating Behavior
Examination of Bromocriptine on Homeostatic and Hedonic Mechanisms of Food Intake in Individuals at High Risk for T2DM
The current project applies an integrative three-prong approach to investigate the potential of the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) agonist bromocriptine to: 1) increase homeostatic satiation signaling, 2) alter neural circuitry to…
- Trial name
- NCT05405244
- Testing
- Bromocriptine-QR
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Physical Inactivity, Overweight or Obesity
eMOTION Formative Study
The eMOTION Study is a two-part ORBIT model phase 1 trial. The first part, called the Formative Study, will assess acceptability and feasibility of a novel physical activity intervention in adults at increased risk for cancer due…
- Conditions
- Physical Inactivity, Overweight or Obesity, Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT06125964
- Testing
- Intensity-Based Goals, Affect-Based Goals, TYPE/CONTEXT Enhancement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Depression
Activating and Connecting Teens (ACT) Study
National data indicate over 650,000 children and adolescents are exposed to physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or physical or emotional neglect each year.
- Trial name
- ACT (NCT03438656)
- Testing
- Behavioral Activation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms, Communication
COVID-19 Resource Offers Among Rent and Utility Assistance Applicants in St. Louis
The purpose of this study is to evaluate health messaging strategies that help individuals with a high degree of housing-related needs engage in COVID-19 vaccination and testing behaviors.
- Trial name
- NCT05451511
- Testing
- Door-In-The-Face Technique, Foot-In-The-Door Technique
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 526 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Diabetes, Depression
Depression-Diabetes Mechanisms: Urban African Americans
African-Americans suffer from increased prevalence of both type 2 diabetes and diabetes complications, reflecting a combination of psychobehavioral factors as well as metabolic dysfunction.
- Trial name
- NCT00209170
- Testing
- Beating the Blues, Escitalopram
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Alcohol Drinking
Effects of Topiramate on Adolescent Alcohol Use: Efficacy and Mechanisms
This study will help to determine whether the medication, topiramate, reduces alcohol use among adolescents with alcohol dependence.
- Trial name
- IMPACT (NCT01641445)
- Testing
- Topiramate
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brown University