Clinical trials: Fear Conditioning
Fear Conditioning
Influence of Escitalopram on Fear Conditioning
The purpose of the study is to learn how differences in learning under mildly-stressful circumstances may be changed by taking an antidepressant medication. This medication is called Lexapro (Escitalopram).
- Trial name
- NCT01398514
- Testing
- Escitalopram
- Volunteers
- 65 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Fear Pain
Human Behaviors Related to the Expectation of Pain
The conditioned expectation of pain is an important aspect of pain-related disability produced by environments and stimuli associated with a painful injury on the job, although the neuroscience of this expectation is unclear.
- Trial name
- NCT03739645
- Testing
- Skin conductance levels and slopes over time in conditioned fear as metrics.as metrics for anxiety
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Healthy Volunteers
Effects of Arousal and Stress in Anxiety
This study has several parts. One part will examine the influence of factors such as personality and past experience on reactions to unpleasant stimuli.
- Trial name
- NCT00026559
- Testing
- Shock Device, Auditory Startle Device
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,418 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)