Clinical trials: Emotional
Cocaine Use Disorder
Neural Substrates of Emotion: Impact of Cocaine Dependence
Over one million individuals in the United States meet criteria for cocaine use disorders. Relapse rates are highest among cocaine-dependent (CD) populations. Social stress is a significant risk factor for relapse.
- Trial name
- NCT02682784
- Testing
- Oxytocin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Social Skills, Emotional Dysfunction
Feasibility and Acceptability Off The Equus Effect
The VA Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation's Whole Health initiative promotes the use of complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches with traditional medical care to help Veterans achieve…
- Trial name
- NCT04159506
- Testing
- mindfulness, emotion didactics, interpersonal skills, experiential learning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Seroquel
This 8 weeks study will investigate therapeutic responses to Seroquel pharmacotherapy in PTSD.
- Trial name
- NCT01066156
- Testing
- Seroquel
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Cambridge Health Alliance
Major Depression
Study of Brain Response to Emotional Pictures Using a fMRI While on Duloxetine
The purpose of this study is to find out what parts of the brain have increased or decreased activity when people are depressed and how antidepressant medicine changes this activity in depressed patients.
- Trial name
- NCT00532480
- Testing
- Duloxetine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Insomnia, Depression
A Novel Use of a Sleep Intervention to Target the Emotion Regulation Brain Network to Treat Depression and Anxiety
Several lines of evidence suggest that unhealthy sleep patterns contribute to depressive symptoms through disruption of brain networks that regulate emotional functions.
- Trial name
- NCT04424407
- Testing
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Depression, Adolescent - Emotional Problem
Light Therapy for Depression in Adolescent Outpatients
The goal of this placebo lead-in clinical trial was to test bright light therapy (BLT) in adolescents with depression. The main question[s] it aimed to answer were: 1.
- Trial name
- NCT05823090
- Testing
- light box (Carex DayLight Classic Model)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms in Later Life
Older adults are becoming a growing proportion of people utilising mental health services. However, the needs of this population are poorly understood despite the evidence that mental health conditions are manifested differently…
- Trial name
- NCT03821259
- Testing
- Psychological measures
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 88 people
- Sponsor
- University of Edinburgh
Dementia, Depression
Testing the Feasibility of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Intervention (IPPI)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the feasibility of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) with 108 nursing home residents living with dementia and distress or depressive symptoms.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Depression, Behavior
- Trial name
- IPPI (NCT05980299)
- Testing
- Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Miami University
Driving Distress Secondary to Trauma During Deployment
Enhancing Emotion Regulation During Driving in OEF/OIF Veterans
Many U.S. military personnel are returning from Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) deployments with histories of trauma while driving in military vehicles.
- Trial name
- NCT01336764
- Testing
- Cognitive reappraisal and breathing retraining, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The Effects of Emotional Exposure on State Anxiety
A randomized repeated-measures crossover clinical trial was performed. Forty healthy, female college students completed a 30 min session of YogaFit and a time-matched seated rest condition on separate days.
- Trial name
- NCT03458702
- Testing
- YogaFit, Quiet Rest
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Texas Tech University
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Healthy
Effects of Drugs on Responses to Brain and Emotional Processes
To study the effects of a psychostimulant on responses to affective touch in individuals with a range of autistic traits
- Trial name
- MAT (NCT04053036)
- Testing
- MDMA
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Family Relations, Sibling Relations
SIB-Time Web-application Tool for Typically Developing Siblings
In the United States, over 32.7 million people have special health, developmental, and mental health concerns. Most of these people have typically developing brothers and sisters.
- Trial name
- SIBTime (NCT04633473)
- Testing
- SIB-Time Web-Application Tool
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc.
Emotional Distress, Burnout, Professional
A Self-directed Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Address Distress and Burnout in Frontline Healthcare Workers
This is a pilot randomized waitlist control trial assessing if the feasibility of using a mobile mindfulness app to treat emotional distress and burnout amongst nurses taking care of COVID-19 patients.
- Conditions
- Emotional Distress, Burnout, Professional, Stress, Job, Anxiety
- Trial name
- LIFT-HCW (NCT04816708)
- Testing
- LIFT Mindfulness
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 102 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Smoking, Tobacco
Examining Brain Responses Linked to Emotion in Individuals Who Smoke Cigarettes
The study will use functional magnetic resonance imaging and facial coding methods to study individuals who smoke cigarettes. Smoking expectancy (the extent to which one perceives an opportunity to smoke a cigarette) will be…
- Trial name
- NCT04310735
- Testing
- Verbal smoking expectancy manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Depression, Anhedonia
Anhedonia, Development, and Emotions: Phenotyping and Therapeutics
The goal of the ADEPT Study is to understand anhedonia in young people and how it changes based on treatments targeting the brain circuit underlying it.
- Trial name
- ADEPT (NCT05487885)
- Testing
- Continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), Positive Affect Training, Ketamine Injectable Solution
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 123 people
- Sponsor
- Erika Forbes
Depression, Anxiety
Mobile Mental Health Apps for Suicide Prevention
Access to mental health care by essential workers and the unemployed during the COVID19 pandemic has been challenging. Usual access to mental health care is limited by social distancing, and for many now unemployed due to…
- Conditions
- Depression, Anxiety, Emotional Regulation
- Trial name
- NCT04536935
- Testing
- Mobile Mental Health App - 1, Mobile Mental Health App - 2, Mobile Mental Health App - 3
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 838 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Cognitive Adaptations to Reduce Emotional Stress Associated With Type 1 Diabetes
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new intervention (CARES: Cognitive Adaptations to Reduce Emotional Stress Associated with Type 1 Diabetes) designed to reduce caregiver depressive symptoms in families of children with…
- Trial name
- CARES (NCT03698708)
- Testing
- CARES Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 37 people
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression
Loving-Kindness Meditation for PTSD
This randomized controlled trial will assess whether a novel complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) intervention, Loving-kindness Meditation (LKM), is not meaningfully inferior to another group-based PTSD treatment …
- Trial name
- NCT01962714
- Testing
- Loving-Kindness Meditation, Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 184 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Anxiety
Sleep and Emotional Memory in Peripubertal Anxiety
The current study aims to deepen understanding of the symptom dimension of negative overgeneralization in anxiety. Specifically, the study examines the malleability of memory processes that are known to occur during sleep that…
- Trial name
- NCT03643848
- Testing
- Sleep with Sound Cues
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 58 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida International University
Major Depression, Treatment
fMRI Study of Treatment Changes in Major Depression
The overall purposes of this research are to determine if Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has the same healing effect on the brain for people with depression as traditional antidepressants do, and in comparison to healthy…
- Trial name
- NCT01027559
- Testing
- Sertraline, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 97 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine