Clinical trials: Interoception
Anxiety, Stress and Anxiety
A Psychomotor Group Intervention for Young Adults With Anxiety Symptoms
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a psychomotor (a body-oriented therapy) group intervention can be feasibly delivered to a group of young adults (age 18-35) with anxiety symptoms within a higher educational setting.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Stress and Anxiety, Interoceptive Awareness, Interoception
- Trial name
- NCT07681765
- Testing
- Ten weekly psychomotor therapy group sessions
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- VIA University College
Healthy
Individual Differences in Cognitive Control Predict Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback Performance
The goal of this study is to investgate whether individual differences of cognitive control capacity could predict neurofeedback performance and the behavioral effects resulting from successful anterior insula regulation via…
- Trial name
- NCT07211269
- Testing
- Real-time fMRI neurofeedback training
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Schizophrenia
Neural Correlates of Social Touch and Interoceptive Perception As Potential Biomarker for Impaired Social Functioning
Recent studies have shown that certain biomarkers of schizophrenia could help to better assess the individual course of the disease and thus, contribute to more personalized treatment options.
- Trial name
- SPIRIT (NCT04968223)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oldenburg
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
Neural Functioning Underlying Anxiety and Its Treatment (The INSULA Study)
This study will examine the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on brain function in people with anxiety disorders.
- Conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT00947570
- Testing
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Interoception, Pulmonary Hypertension
Interoceptive Intervention for Pulmonary Hypertension
Background Pulmonary hypertension is a rare and incurable condition characterised by fatigue and breathlessness. The effects of pulmonary hypertension has a significant impact on an individual's emotional wellbeing and there are…
- Trial name
- NCT06443580
- Testing
- interoceptive group based intervention
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Golden Jubilee National Hospital
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Diseases
Emotion Processing Among Patients With ALS
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the emotional perception in people with ALS disease compared to people with other neuromuscular disease and healthy controls.
- Conditions
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Diseases, ALS, Motor Neuron Disease
- Trial name
- NCT06566651
- Testing
- Emotion Discrimination Task (EDT)
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Healthy
Interoception and Body Scan
Body scan meditation has been assumed to be an interoceptive intervention, and the evidence for its effects on interoceptive processes is unclear.
- Trial name
- NCT06237530
- Testing
- Visceral body scan (VBS), Somatosensory body scan (SBS), External control meditation (ECM)
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Valencia
Healthy Volunteers, Health Promotion
Dance-Mindfulness Intervention for Well-Being in Recreational Adults
This 12-week study protocol outlines a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a Dance-Mindfulness intervention integrating Modern Theatre Dance with mindfulness-based embodied practices to enhance…
- Trial name
- DanceMind (NCT07262177)
- Testing
- Dance-Mindfulness Intervention
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Thessaly
Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Body Perception and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
In CRPS, perturbation of body image and pseudo-neglect syndrome of the body part affected are frequently found. Pain and sensory perturbation seems to modify the way patients perceived their body part affected.
- Trial name
- SDRC (NCT02901002)
- Testing
- Sensory testing in the two hand, Neuropsychological evaluation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia, Interoceptive Awareness
Adapted Mindfulness Training for Diabetic Patients With Impaired Hypoglycemia Awareness
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week interoception-integrated adapted mindfulness training program for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who experience impaired…
- Conditions
- Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia, Interoceptive Awareness, Mindfulness-based Intervention
- Trial name
- NCT07586527
- Testing
- Adapted Mindfulness Training, Routine Intervention
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Yangzhou University
Chronic Pain, Persistent Pain
Pleasant Touch Perception in Persistent Pain.
The goal of this observational study is to learn how individuals with chronic pain experience pleasant touch and how often they are exposed to such touch in their daily lives.
- Trial name
- NCT07551687
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Göteborg University
Cancer, Primary Breast Cancer
ADIE-BC - Aligning Dimensions of Interoceptive Experience in Breast Cancer Survivors
A breast cancer diagnosis can lead to significant anxiety, and for many survivors, this anxiety continues well beyond the end of treatment.
- Trial name
- ADIE-BC (NCT06954532)
- Testing
- Interoceptive training
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- King's College London
Safety, Psychological, Acceptability of Health Care
Body-oriented Psychotherapy for Individuals With a History of Child Maltreatment and Trauma-related Symptoms
This Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) overall aim is to establish the safety, feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of a body-oriented psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), on social functioning and mental…
- Conditions
- Safety, Psychological, Acceptability of Health Care, Psychological Safety, Maltreatment, Child
- Trial name
- NCT06549777
- Testing
- SE-group, Control
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Monique Pfaltz
Obesity
Interoception and Illness Perception Before and After Bariatric Surgery: Impact on Disordered Eating (Interoceptiv-BAR)
Obesity is associated with alterations in the perception and interpretation of internal bodily signals (interoception), which may influence eating behaviors, emotional regulation, and long-term weight outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT07594275
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Multiple Sclerosis
Interoception and Sense of Movement in the Patient With Multiple Sclerosis
To evaluate the effectiveness of an experimental rehabilitative protocol with specific tasks for the improvement of body awareness and the motor scheme in the patient with multiple sclerosis (EDSS <2.5).
- Trial name
- NCT03711968
- Testing
- Rehabilitative treatment protocol
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
Multiple Sclerosis
Evaluation of Interoception, Fatigue, and Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Capacity in Multiple Sclerosis Patients With Good and Poor Sleep Quality
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system associated with a wide range of motor and non-motor symptoms.
- Trial name
- NCT07374237
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 102 people
- Sponsor
- Gulhane School of Medicine
Depression - Major Depressive Disorder
Modulating Spinal Interoceptive Pathways to Evaluate Their Role and Therapeutic Potential in MDD Symptomatic Domains
Spinal interoceptive pathways (SIPs) convey bodily signals to an interoceptive system in the brain and their dysregulation is linked to major depressive disorder (MDD).
- Trial name
- MOSPID (NCT06795451)
- Testing
- transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people
- Sponsor
- University of Cincinnati
Healthy Lifestyle
Improving Wellbeing Through the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis
Well-being is a state defined as the optimal psychological functioning and the experience associated with it, integrating physical and subjective factors.
- Trial name
- IBMA (NCT04823533)
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 136 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Interoception
The Modulatory Effect of Oxytocin on Interoception
This study is designed to investigate oxytocin's effects on interoception and whether these effects vary as a function of different emotional valence.
- Trial name
- NCT03074409
- Testing
- oxytocin
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Insomnia
Evaluation of Yoga for Sleep Disturbances in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The primary objective of this preliminary study is to estimate sleep outcome effect sizes and determine feasibility for a novel yoga treatment of insomnia in participants with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Trial name
- NCT01556074
- Testing
- Yoga treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital