Clinical trials: Fear Conditioning
Anxiety Disorder
Fear Conditioning Using Computer-Generated Virtual Reality
The purpose of this study is to use a computer-generated virtual reality environment to study fear conditioning. Fear conditioning is used to explore the causes and persistence of anxiety and anxiety disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT00025844
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 202 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
The Effects of D-cycloserine on Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Fear Healthy Controls.
PROJECT SUMMARY: PTSD is a debilitating psychiatric condition precipitated by exposure to extreme, or life threatening, trauma with an estimated lifetime prevalence between 8% and 9% in U.S. adults.
- Trial name
- DCS (NCT01733030)
- Testing
- Seromycin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Healthy Individuals
Exploring Learning and Unlearning of Fear
The present study investigates the effect of d-cycloserine on learning and unlearning of fear in healthy humans and its underlying effect on the amygdala.
- Trial name
- NCT01512316
- Testing
- d-Cycloserine, Lactose pill, Saliva sample
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
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)
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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cortisol Suppression and Startle Responses in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in some people after exposure to events that cause extreme fear or helplessness. The incidence of war zones worldwide and the prevalence of violence in large cities in the U.S.…
- Trial name
- CSS (NCT01477762)
- Testing
- Dexamethasone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 165 people
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Anxiety and Fear, PTSD
K08 VR Fear Conditioning
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn how people respond to fear-related experiences in a virtual reality (VR) environment.
- Conditions
- Anxiety and Fear, PTSD, Veteran
- Trial name
- NCT07216222
- Testing
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Anxiety Disorders
Neurobiology of Generalized Fear-Conditioning & Avoidance in Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent, costly, and disabling mental illnesses. One central, yet largely understudied, abnormality in anxiety disorders is the heightened tendency to display fear and avoidance in reaction…
- Trial name
- NCT03033056
- Testing
- Test of fear conditioning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 208 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Pediatric Anxiety Disorders
Fear Conditioning, Extinction and Its Recall in Anxious Youth
The proposed research aims to isolate brain-based information-processing mechanisms implicated in perturbed fear learning and extinction characteristic of pediatric anxiety.
- Trial name
- FCPA (NCT02631785)
- Testing
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Where
- 2 sites in Israel
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Haifa
Fear of Spiders
The Neural Mechanisms of Imaginal Extinction
Imaginal exposure is a widely used and effective psychological treatment technique in which patients are exposed to fearful stimuli and situations using mental imagery.
- Trial name
- NCT05168592
- Testing
- Threat conditioning, Imaginal extinction
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University
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, Stress
Traits Associated With Early Life Stress Among Treatment-Seeking Alcoholics
Background: Researchers want to see if people with alcohol dependence have more trouble learning to feel calm, or learn to fear things more easily, than non-alcoholics and to study how early life stress (ELS) affects these…
- Conditions
- Fear, Stress, Alcohol Dependence
- Trial name
- NCT02181608
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Anxiety and Fear
Cannabidiol Effects on Learning and Anxiety
To examine the extent to which Cannabidiol (CBD) enhances fear conditioning extinction in college undergraduates who show elevated social anxiety.
- Trial name
- NCT05283382
- Testing
- Cannabidiol Oral Product
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Connecticut
Fear Extinction
Amygdala-Prefrontal in Fear Extinction
The goal of this clinical trial is to understand how brain circuits involving the amygdala and prefrontal cortex contribute to fear learning and extinction.
- Trial name
- NCT07800455
- Testing
- Direct intracranial electrical stimulation, Fear conditioning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Potentiation of Fear Extinction in OCD
The investigators want to learn more about how human beings learn not to fear and the impact of changing the fear network in the brain using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in individuals with obsessive compulsive…
- Trial name
- NCT05521074
- Testing
- Active tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 86 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Healthy Individuals, Highly Stressed
Could Meditation Modulate the Neurobiology of Learning Not to Fear?
It is well-established that the practice of mindfulness meditation leads to improvements in mental health and well-being and the cultivation of positive emotions.
- Trial name
- NCT01320969
- Testing
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Healthy
Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion Perception, Recognition, Learning, and Memory
This study uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to explore the areas of the brain involved in different types of mental processes, in particular, the brain regions involved in perception, recognition, learning, and memory.
- Trial name
- NCT00458432
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Epilepsy, Mental Disorders
Stimulation-Induced Changes in Fronto-Limbic Network
The purpose of this research is to better understand how emotion processing unfolds in the brain using stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) and direct brain stimulation.
- Trial name
- Stim_Con (NCT05854160)
- Testing
- Electrical Pulse Train Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham