Clinical trials: Fear Extinction, open to volunteers
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Extinction in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with substantial impairments in quality of life and is among the most disabling psychiatric disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT06834217
- Testing
- Active transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale 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
Anxiety, Fear Extinction
Uncovering Neurocognitive Mechanisms and Enhancement of Exposure-based Fear Learning With Cognitive Training
Anxiety disorders remain are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions and are associated with negative outcomes spanning poor health to increased suicide risk.
- Trial name
- NCT07805070
- Testing
- Cognitive training
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Fear and Avoidance in PTSD Patients
The purpose of this research study is to study how the brain learns to avoid certain stimuli or situations using an experimental paradigm.
- Trial name
- NCT04770584
- Testing
- Fear Conditioning, Avoidance conditioning, Pavlovian fear extinction learning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Written Exposure Therapy Plus Adjunctive Methylphenidate Treatment for Veterans With PTSD
Many Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not fully benefit from the best current treatments, some of which focus on helping the brain regulate trauma memories.
- Trial name
- WET+MPH (NCT07904000)
- Testing
- Written Exposure Therapy (WET), methylphenidate (MPH)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
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
Public Speaking Anxiety, Public Speaking Fear
Enhancing Generalization of Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety
This randomized controlled trial examines whether imagery-based extinction memory updating following a standardized virtual reality (VR) exposure session improves the generalization of exposure effects to novel public speaking…
- Trial name
- VREX2 (NCT07323498)
- Testing
- VR Exposure, Standard Mental Rehearsal, Mental Rehearsal With Extinction Memory Updating
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- Philipps University Marburg
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Inflammatory Challenge and Fear
The goal of this study is to learn if short-term changes in the immune system alter how we process information and experience fear.
- Trial name
- LIFE (NCT06630884)
- Testing
- Typhoid VI Polysaccharide Vaccine Injectable Solution
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 288 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
PTSD, Exercise Intensity
Using Exercise to Enhance Fear Extinction Learning
The goal of the current project is to establish the efficacy and mechanisms of exercise-enhanced fear extinction retrieval and generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Conditions
- PTSD, Exercise Intensity, Fear Extinction, Fear Conditioning
- Trial name
- NCT07548125
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Josh Cisler
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
Phobia
Unconscious Reduction of Fear Through Decoded Neuro-Reinforcement
This application investigates the efficacy of a novel method of neuro-reinforcement based on decoded fMRI activity to reduce fear responses in individuals with phobias (e.g., spiders, snakes).
- Trial name
- DecNef (NCT06420557)
- Testing
- Unconscious Neuro-reinforcement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
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
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
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
Insomnia, PTSD
The Effects of Orexin Antagonism on Fear Extinction in PTSD
PTSD affects approximately 22% of Veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Symptoms of PTSD may include re-experiencing, avoidance of trauma reminders, negative thoughts or feelings, and hyperarousal, such as increased…
- Trial name
- NCT06788522
- Testing
- Suvorexant
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40,120 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Anxiety Disorders, Panic Disorder
Efficacy of Expectancy Focused Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
This clinical trial evaluates whether an optimized exposure-based treatment improves long-term outcomes for adults with anxiety disorders.
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Trial name
- EFE-AD (NCT07753330)
- Testing
- Expectancy Focused Exposure, Anxiety Focused Exposure
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 203 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chile
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