Clinical trials: Rewarding Mediating System
Polymorphism- Genetic, Reward Mediating System
Imaging and Genetic Investigation of Learning and Decision Making
Background: Previous research has shown that dopamine, a brain chemical, is involved in decision making. Different genes influence how much dopamine people have in their brains and how that affects their behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT01950377
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 78 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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)
Alcoholism, fMRI
Neural Substrates of Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Background: People who are dependent on alcohol drink even when they know something bad might happen. Researchers want to learn more about why they do this.
- Conditions
- Alcoholism, fMRI, Rewarding Mediating System
- Trial name
- NCT02119624
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)