Clinical trials: Pain, Somatic
Placebo, Expectations
Effects of Expectations on Negative Affect, Perceived Cognitive Effort, and Pain
The investigators administer a functional neuroimaging task to investigate the effect of cue expectancy on participants' self-reported ratings across a variety of affective and cognitive domains.
- Trial name
- NCT05425563
- Testing
- Pain Expectancy Cues, Vicarious Pain Expectancy Cues, Cognitive Effort Expectancy Cues
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College
Tissue Pain
Optical Measurements of the Skin Surface to Infer Distinctions in Myofascial Tissue Stiffness
This study involves imaging the skin movements of surface tissue on the back. A clinician will perform assessment and intervention procedures manually, using manual and light movements of stretch and compression.
- Trial name
- OptMeasSkin (NCT06390085)
- Testing
- Soft tissue manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Virginia
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