Clinical trials: fMRI
Major Depressive Disorder, Menopausal Staging and Vasomotor Symptoms (for Females)
Desvenlafaxine Succinate (DVS) for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in Midlife Men and Women
The main objective of this study is to characterize a range of brain activation symptoms associated with depression and response to treatment in midlife men and women with MDD, using MRI and functional MRI.
- Trial name
- DVS (NCT00888862)
- Testing
- Desvenlafaxine Succinate
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Schizophrenia
Clinical Trial of Tolcapone for Cognition in Schizophrenia
This study will evaluate whether Tolcapone improves cognition in healthy volunteers as well as patients with schizophrenia. Talcapone is a drug that has been FDA approved for Attention Deficit Disorder and allegedly increase the…
- Trial name
- NCT00044083
- Testing
- Tolcapone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 210 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Alcohol Use Disorder
Neural and Hormonal Influences on Sex Differences in Risk for AUD
The sex gap in alcohol consumption is closing rapidly, due to alarming increases among women. From 2002-2013, Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) increased 84% for women, compared to 35% for men.
- Trial name
- NCT04929288
- Testing
- Alcohol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jessica Weafer
Feeding Behavior, Brain
Food Intake and the Adolescent Brain
The brain plays an integral role in how and what people eat. However, the brain's contribution to overeating is not well understood during sensitive developmental periods such as adolescence, when excessive weight gain and…
- Conditions
- Feeding Behavior, Brain, Adolescent
- Trial name
- ADOB (NCT04208256)
- Testing
- Energy Stimulus
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Healthy Participants, Anxiety Disorders (With High Anxiety Symptoms)
tVNS and Approach-Avoidance Behavior in Anhedonia and Anxiety
This study investigates if anhedonia and anxiety symptoms are associated with alterations in reinforcement learning, effort trade-offs for wins vs. punishments, and foraging behavior under threat.
- Conditions
- Healthy Participants, Anxiety Disorders (With High Anxiety Symptoms), Depressive Disorders (With High Anhedonia Symptoms), Comorbid Depression and Anxiety Disorder (With High Anhedonia and High Anxiety Symptoms)
- Trial name
- NCT07476469
- Testing
- tVNS
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 104 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr. Nils B. Kroemer
Tourette Syndrome
Dopaminergic Effects on Cortical Function in Tourette's (Levodopa Protocol)
Dr. Kevin J. Black at Washington University is conducting a study to learn whether we can use MRI scans to test dopamine function in the brain and to determine whether the brain performs memory tasks differently in Tourette…
- Trial name
- TSfMRI (NCT00634556)
- Testing
- levodopa solution 2mg/ml for i.v. use
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Nicotine Dependency, Smoking
A Fmri Study on the Effects of a Conjugate Vaccine and Placebo on CNS Activation and Behavior Following a Nicotine Challenge
In this study the effects of a nicotine challenge on brain activity, behavior and mood will be evaluated in two groups of healthy volunteers who have a smoking habbit: The first group will undergo a series of treatments with…
- Trial name
- EPU057 (NCT01318668)
- Testing
- vaccination with Nicvax
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Focus: Effects of Nicotine and Alcohol on Brain Circuits
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Nicotine and Alcohol Combinations
Nicotine and alcohol are frequently used together and their combined use contributes to more than half a million deaths each year, with more alcoholics dying from smoking-related diseases than from alcohol-related diseases.
- Trial name
- QfMRI (NCT02049268)
- Testing
- Nicotine + Alcohol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
Obesity
Diet, Imaging and Energy Balance Trial (DIET)
To evaluate whether changes in macronutrient consumption (i.e., switching to a diet low in carbohydrates) can change brain responses to cues depicting foods representing that macronutrient.
- Trial name
- DIET (NCT00787280)
- Testing
- Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet (LCKD), Low Fat Diet (LFD)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Nicotine Dependence
The Impact of Real-time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Feedback on Response to Nicotine Cues
The purpose of this study is to develop a technique to provide feedback of brain activity and to use this technique to reduce levels of craving in nicotine dependent smokers.
- Trial name
- RTSmoking (NCT01411007)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Alcoholism
Alcohol Addiction: A Systems-oriented Approach
The goal of the multicenter subproject (SP) 10 of the eMED Alcohol Addiction Consortium - A Systems-Oriented Approach is to study neuroimaging x genetics predictions in an existing sample (NGFNplus) of tightly endophenotyped and…
- Trial name
- eMedAlcohol (NCT02910193)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 159 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Heart Rate, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Investigating Neuronal and Peripheral Markers of Brain Heart Interaction in Healthy Participants Under Stress
This study seeks to investigate which regions of the brain are relevant in the regulation of cardiac control and how the interplay between HRV and those regions change during different physiological states (stress versus…
- Conditions
- Heart Rate, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Stress, Physiological
- Trial name
- HRV_DB (NCT05358314)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Heidelberg Medical Center
Fallopian Tube Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
Structural and Functional Imaging and Cognitive Functions in Ovarian Cancer
The purpose of this study is to learn about possible changes in brain anatomy and function, and in thinking abilities, such as memory skills, in patients with ovarian cancer who receive treatment with chemotherapy.
- Conditions
- Fallopian Tube Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Peritoneal Cancer
- Trial name
- NCT01591772
- Testing
- Neuroimaging & Neuropsychological Evaluation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Urinary Incontinence, Urge
Examining Bladder Control Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Urgency incontinence (where the bladder muscles contract suddenly, causing an immediate urge to urinate that is difficult to prevent) is commonly experienced in patients with overactive bladder.
- Trial name
- NCT01110278
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Social Integration During Psychiatric Inpatient Therapy as Predictor of Treatment Response
The present longitudinal study aims at (i) identifying neurobiological mechanisms associated with successful social integration during the treatment of inpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and (ii) improving…
- Trial name
- SANITY (NCT04770038)
- Testing
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oldenburg
Cardiac Arrest, Cognitive Function
Brain Function After Cardiac Arrest (Measured With FMRI and Cognitive Tests)
The aim of this longitudinal study is to determine whether brain function is affected after a cardiac arrest. The primary question is whether cognitive function is affected after cardiac arrest and whether it changes over time…
- Trial name
- BRAINnHEART (NCT03579498)
- Where
- 2 sites in Norway, Sweden
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University
Healthy
The Impact of Reward-induced Dopamine Release on Functional Connectivity: a Combined PET/fMRI Study
The present study would be the first to investigate the relationship between reward- and or social stimuli-induced dopamine (DA) release and neural function using a combined PET/fMRI approach.
- Trial name
- NCT02801643
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stony Brook University
Major Depressive Episode, Major Depressive Disorder
Depression-Reduction by Accelerated Personalized NeuroModulation and Its Effects on Sleep
Advances in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) protocols with intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) have significantly decreased the duration for one single session and thereby enabled accelerated treatment…
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Episode, Major Depressive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder
- Trial name
- DREAMS (NCT04832750)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 102 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oldenburg
Healthy Volunteers
Temporal Interference Methods for Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation, Study 1.1
In its totality, this grant aims to develop a line of research using temporal interference (TI) electrical neurostimulation technology to understand the causal role of deep brain structures in cognition.
- Trial name
- NCT07215299
- Testing
- Temporal Interference (TI) Electrical Stimulation - NAcc TI Active, Temporal Interference (TI) Electrical Stimulation - NAcc No-TI Active
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Stroke
Neural Correlates of Lower Extremity Motor Recovery in Stroke Patients: Longitudinal Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Studies
To investigate the relationship between the integrity of the white matter, including the corticospinal tracts and the corpus callosum, with the recovery of lower extremity function in patients with cerebral stroke at the subacute…
- Trial name
- NCT00407628
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital