Clinical trials: Fear Extinction
Adolescence
Exercise Facilitation of Adolescent Fear Extinction, Frontolimbic Circuitry, and Endocannabinoids
Anxiety disorders commonly begin during adolescence, and are characterized by deficits in the ability to inhibit or extinguish pathological fear.
- Trial name
- BRAINS (NCT06297278)
- Testing
- Moderate Intensity Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 174 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wayne State University
Anorexia Nervosa
Estradiol and Fear Extinction in Anorexia Nervosa (AN)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether estrogen may help reduce fear of high calorie-density foods in weight-restored women with Anorexia Nervosa (AN).
- Trial name
- NCT02792153
- Testing
- Estradiol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Fear, Fear; Examination, Phobic
Impact of Estrogen on Fear Extinction R61
The goal of this project is to examine how estrogen may influence the resting-state connectivity and the extinction-induced activation of the fear extinction network.
- Trial name
- NCT02673606
- Testing
- Estradiol 2Mg Tablet, Estradiol 4Mg Tablet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 136 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
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
Fear, Anxiety
Social Support and Reduced Fear Acquisition
University of California, Los Angeles researchers will recruit healthy participants and anxious participants (those diagnosed with social anxiety disorder) age 18-55 years old to participate in a study examining whether the…
- Trial name
- NCT04564976
- Testing
- Social support image
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Phobia
Treating Phobia With Multivoxel Neuro-reinforcement
Specific phobias and other anxiety disorders represent a major mental health problem, and present a significant challenge to researchers because effective treatment usually involves repeated exposure to feared stimuli, and the…
- Trial name
- NCT03655262
- Testing
- Unconscious Neuro-reinforcement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Healthy Participants
Cannabinoid Control of Fear Extinction Neural Circuits in Humans
The goal of the current proposal is to investigate the effects of a cannabinoid drug on the memory of extinguished fear in humans and the brain circuitry important for the recall of extinction learning.
- Trial name
- NCT02472847
- Testing
- Dronabinol
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Anxiety Disorder of Childhood
A Pilot Study of Fear Extinction Learning in Anxious Youth
The goal of this proposed study is to identify a potential biobehavioral marker of CBT outcome in the most common child and adolescent anxiety disorders, including separation anxiety disorder (SAD), social phobia (SoP), and…
- Trial name
- NCT03032926
- Testing
- Open Trial
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Oxytocin, Estrogen
Dissecting the Role of Estradiol in Mediating Gender-specific Anxiolytic and Prosocial Effects of Oxytocin
The study aims to examine a behavioral and neural framework for understanding the sex-specific effects of the neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT).
- Conditions
- Oxytocin, Estrogen, Fear Extinction, Emotion Processing
- Trial name
- ESMory (NCT04330677)
- Testing
- Oxytocin nasal spray, Estrogen Gel
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 487 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bonn
PTSD
Circadian Influence on Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Proposed research will examine time-of-day effects on trauma-related fear extinction using Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) telemedicine for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD).
- Trial name
- NCT05453162
- Testing
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Cognitive Control Training for Extinction in PTSD
The proposed study will test whether a working memory training (WMT) program improves fear extinction learning and its underlying neural circuitry in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD
- Trial name
- NCT06629064
- Testing
- Working Memory Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
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
Opioids and Social Support Enhanced Extinction Effects
University of California, Los Angeles researchers will recruit healthy participants (age 18-35) to participate in a study examining whether the administration of naltrexone, an opioid antagonist, eliminates the ability of social…
- Trial name
- SSO (NCT04166071)
- Testing
- Naltrexone
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Phobic Disorders
Facilitation of Fear Extinction With Yohimbine Hydrochloride in Phobic Participants
Procedurally Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is quite similar to models of extinction of conditioned fears. Recent advances in animal research have identified pharmacological agents that appear to both accelerate and…
- Trial name
- NCT00734422
- Testing
- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 67 people
- Sponsor
- VU University of Amsterdam
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
PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Mechanisms of Written Exposure Therapy in Residential SUD Treatment
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn how Written Exposure Therapy (WET), a brief treatment for PTSD, works among individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) engaged in residential SUD treatment and how biology may…
- Trial name
- NCT07397507
- Testing
- Written Exposure Therapy, Neutral Writing
- Volunteers
- 108 people
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
PTSD
Neuromodulation of the Fear Extinction Circuit Using Temporally and Anatomically Specific TMS in Humans
This study aims to explore the mechanisms of how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) impacts fear circuits. The overarching objectives are to understand how varying TMS parameters affect targeted brain regions in order to…
- Trial name
- NCT05368987
- Testing
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), Fear Conditioning and Extinction Paradigm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Stress Disorder, Post Traumatic
Dopamine Enhancement of Fear Extinction Learning in PTSD (1R21MH108753)
The purpose of this study is to investigate a new use for a medication called levodopa (L-DOPA). L-DOPA has been approved for use in Parkinson 's disease, but not for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
- Trial name
- NCT02560389
- Testing
- Levodopa
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 103 people
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cannabinoid Control of Fear Extinction Neural Circuits in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
The goal of this study is to look at how a type of drug called cannabinoids are related to the processing of fear signals, the experience of emotions and fear, and the pattern of activity in the brain that is involved in these…
- Trial name
- NCT02069366
- Testing
- Dronabinol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 86 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wayne State University
PTSD
The Influence of Aerobic Exercise on Consolidation of Fear Extinction Learning in PTSD
This study aims to test whether aerobic exercise performed after fear extinction learning improves cognitive, physiological, and neural indices of extinction recall in a sample of trauma-exposed men and women with and without…
- Trial name
- NCT06144203
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa