Clinical trials: Behavior And Behavior Mechanism
Parkinson Disease
Exercise and Parkinson's: Comparing Interventions and Exploring Neural Mechanisms
Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by substantial disability and reduced quality of life, both of which can be attributed in large part to difficulties with walking.
- Trial name
- NCT01768832
- Testing
- Treadmill, Tango, Stretching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 119 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Depression
Antidepressant Mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
This study utilizes resting state fMRI, arterial spin labelling imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, structural MR-imaging, and MR-spectroscopy of GABA and Glutamate to probe the antidepressant mechanisms of repetitive transcranial…
- Trial name
- NCT02466230
- Testing
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Binge Drinking, Alcohol Drinking in College
Balanced Lifestyle for Undergraduate Excellence - Mobile (Project BLUEM)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a text-message delivered approach for improving college adjustment and experience and reducing risky alcohol use in young adult college students.
- Conditions
- Binge Drinking, Alcohol Drinking in College, Behavior, Drinking, Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
- Trial name
- BLUEM (NCT04105725)
- Testing
- Brief Motivational Intervention+Substance-Free Activity Session, Alcohol + Nutrition Education Session
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 66 people
- Sponsor
- University of Memphis
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
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
Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Intoxication
Mindfulness-Based Intervention and Transcranial Direct Current Brain Stimulation to Reduce Heavy Drinking
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) impacts millions of Americans and is associated with significant behavioral, social, economic, medical, and neurobiological dysfunction, yet current behavioral treatments for AUD are only modestly…
- Conditions
- Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Intoxication, Alcoholism
- Trial name
- MBItDCS (NCT02861807)
- Testing
- Brain stimulation with mindfulness-based relapse prevention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
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
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, 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
Resilience, HIV-1-infection
Testing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of an Adapted Resilience Building Intervention in People Aging With HIV
This study will examine the mechanisms and efficacy of a resilience building intervention in older people living with HIV.
- Conditions
- Resilience, HIV-1-infection, Stress, Psychological
- Trial name
- RISE+ (NCT05314088)
- Testing
- RISE+, Stress Reduction Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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
Treatment Resistant Depression
KET-RO Plus RO DBT for Treatment Resistant Depression
This pilot study will assess the safety and feasibility of intravenous (IV) ketamine combined with RO DBT in young adults with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD).
- Trial name
- KET-RO (NCT06138691)
- Testing
- Ketamine Infusion plus RO DBT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
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
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
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
Depressive Disorder, Major Depression
Pattern Separation, Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factors, and Mechanisms of Vortioxetine
The study is a 6-week, proof-of-concept, open trial of vortioxetine for 20 patients with major depressive disorder.
- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Major Depression, Depression, Depression, Unipolar
- Trial name
- VOR-IISR (NCT02969876)
- Testing
- Vortioxetine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
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
Borderline Personality Disorder
Mapping Aspects of Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Although dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training is effective in the treatment of borderline personality disorder, it contains four skills modules and there is little research to guide their modular application.
- Trial name
- MAP-DBT (NCT04626310)
- Testing
- Dialectical behavior therapy - emotion regulation skills training, Dialectical behavior therapy - interpersonal effectiveness skills training, Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Acute Coronary Syndrome, Fear
Investigating Fear Of Recurrence as a Modifiable Mechanism of Behavior Change
The primary goal of this project is to identify, measure, and influence fear of cardiac event recurrence, a candidate mechanism of change in medication adherence in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
- Conditions
- Acute Coronary Syndrome, Fear, Medication Adherence
- Trial name
- INFORM (NCT03853213)
- Testing
- Cognitive Bias Modification Training, Attention Control Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University