Clinical trials: Reward
Learning Disabilities
Effects of Oxytocin on Reinforcement Learning
The main aim of the study is to investigate whether intranasal oxytocin (24IU) influences reward sensitivity and performance monitoring during reinforcement learning.
- Trial name
- NCT03846271
- Testing
- intranasal oxytocin
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Healthy
Immediate Effect of Subliminal Priming With Subliminal Reward Stimuli on Standing Balance in Healthy Young Adults
The purpose of the study was to examine the immediate effect of subliminal priming with subliminal reward stimuli on standing balance in healthy young adults.
- Trial name
- NCT02705092
- Testing
- Subliminal priming with subliminal reward stimuli, Subliminal priming with supraliminal reward stimuli
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kibi International University
Opioid-use Disorder
Using Combined EEG and Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Examine and Improve Reward Functioning in Opioid Use Disorder
The primary aims of this study are to identify impaired cognitive control in opioid use disorder (OUD) and subsequently to examine the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on reward processing, as measured by the…
- Trial name
- NCT04432493
- Testing
- Active repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers University
Familial Alcoholism Vulnerability
Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-5 (mGlur5) Effects on Reward-Related fMRI-BOLD Activation in FHP and FHN
The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the role of Mavoglurant in clarifying the neurobiology of alcoholism risk. This is a 1-site, randomized, within subjects, counterbalanced double-blind study of a single dose (200mg)…
- Trial name
- NCT03341715
- Testing
- Mavoglurant (AFQ056)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Cigarette Smoking Behavior
Nicotine Reinforcement and Smoking-Cue Reactivity: Association With Genetic Polymorphisms
In this study, potential associations between several genetic polymorphisms and nicotine dependence will be examined. The relative reinforcing efficacy of cigarettes using the forced-choice procedure will be assessed.
- Trial name
- NCT02921282
- Testing
- Genotype dopamine, Genotype cannabinoids
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Rejection Sensitivity
Endogenous Opioid Mechanisms for Rejection Sensitivity
This project hypothesizes that the brain's opioid system determines rejection sensitivity, a personality trait that is a vulnerability factor and feature of several psychiatric disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT02189785
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 114 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stony Brook University
Apathy
Study of the Effects of Atomoxetine on Motivation
This study investigates how increasing noradrenaline levels with atomoxetine affects motivation and information processing relevant to apathy.
- Trial name
- STEAM (NCT07771595)
- Testing
- Atomoxetine
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Appetite and General Nutritional Disorders
Protein Quality on Appetite Control, Reward-driven Eating, & Subsequent Food Intake
To determine whether the consumption of a beef-rich lunch improves appetite control, satiety, and energy intake regulation while reducing food reward and food cravings compared to the consumption of a soy-rich lunch when matched…
- Trial name
- NCT02285907
- Testing
- Macronutrient and Fiber Matched BEEF, Macronutrient and Fiber Matched SOY, Serving Size Matched BEEF
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
Eating Behavior
The Development of Reward Response to Food in Infancy
In this study the researchers want to learn more about reward-driven eating behavior in children ages 2 to 18 months. The researchers hope to use this knowledge to help inform obesity prevention programs.
- Trial name
- NCT04114123
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,166 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Immune Hepatitis
Characterization of the Relationship Between the Human Mesolimbic Reward System and Immune Functioning
The purpose of this study is to characterize the link between neurobehavioral measures of the mesolimbic reward system and immune functioning in healthy individuals, via fMRI neurofeedback modulation of mesolimbic reward system…
- Trial name
- NCT03951870
- Testing
- Neuromodulation via fMRI Neurofeedback task, Hepatitis B vaccination
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Pediatric Obesity
Taste Reward Processing in Pediatric Obesity
The study aims to provide a better understanding of the neural influence of eating behavior in the development of childhood obesity.
- Trial name
- NCT01908153
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Depression, Anhedonia
Dimensional Approach to Evaluate Reward Processing in Major Depressive Disorder Pre- and Post-Desvenlafaxine Treatment
Anhedonia (the lack of pleasure in normally pleasurable things) is a common symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD), and it may impact how patients with depression experience reward.
- Trial name
- NCT02859103
- Testing
- Desvenlafaxine
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Healthy Volunteers - Male and Female
Resting-state Imaging and Chronic Consumption of Non-Nutritive SweetenerS
Non-nutritive sweeteners are used as a substitute for simple sugars to improve the palatability of food products without increasing their sugar and calorie content.
- Trial name
- RNSS (NCT07183254)
- Testing
- administration of questionnaires, carrying out a MRI scan, Can distribution visit for subjects in the "non/low" sweetener consumption group
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Oral Hormonal Contraceptive Use, Neural Activity
Contraceptive Hormone and Reward Measurement (CHARM Study)
Purpose of this study: The purpose of this study is to learn more about how hormonal oral contraceptives affect brain processes and emotional wellbeing.
- Conditions
- Oral Hormonal Contraceptive Use, Neural Activity, Mood, Hedonic Function
- Trial name
- CHARM (NCT05058872)
- Testing
- Levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Narcolepsy, Cataplexy
Exploration of the Reward System by Functional MRI in Narco-cataplexy Patients With and Without REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Up to 50% of Narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC) patients suffer from REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a parasomnia. A strong link was found between RBD and impulse control disorders (ICD) in Parkinson disease (PD) patients.
- Trial name
- NC-TCSP-IRMf (NCT03425214)
- Testing
- fMRI, Videopolysomnography, NC (narcolepsy-cataplexy)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Healthy
Stimulating Deep Brain Regions With a Magnetic Stimulator
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a special coil designed for magnetic stimulation of areas deep in the brain can affect mood and emotion in healthy volunteers.
- Trial name
- NCT00063245
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Obesity
Effects of Macronutrient Diet on Brain Activity
This study will evaluate the effect of macronutrient diets on brain activity in homeostatic and mesolimbic reward regions.
- Trial name
- NCT02300857
- Testing
- Low carbohydrate diet, Moderate carbohydrate diet, High carbohydrate diet
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Major Depressive Disorder
Brain Regulation of Emotions in People With Depression and Anhedonia
This study will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine how the brain regulates emotions in healthy people and in patients who have major depression and anhedonia (loss of feeling of pleasure in things that normally give…
- Trial name
- NCT00059579
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 163 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Health Behavior
Personalized Recommendation System for Sport Activities
The goal of this clinical trial is to test and compare the effects of a tailored algorithm recommendation of sport activities concreted in challenges to improve some critical performance dimensions.
- Trial name
- NCT06200350
- Testing
- Experimental group, Control group
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Vigo
Healthy
Functional Neuroimaging of Alcoholism Vulnerability (PIT)
This project compares Family History Positive (FHP) for alcoholism subjects to matched Family History Negative (FHN) subjects derived from the project Principal Investigator's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and…
- Trial name
- CTNA (NCT01585168)
- Testing
- Memantine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 71 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University