Neurobehavioral Intervention as a Novel Treatment Approach for Emotion-Regulatory Deficits

March 22, 2019 updated by: Amit Etkin, Stanford University
The present study will explore the effectiveness of a computer based neurobehavioral intervention in alleviating symptoms and improving emotion regulation in psychiatric populations. It will increase understanding of psychopathology at a neural-circuit level and aid development of new non-pharmacological treatment for emotion regulatory deficits.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

28

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford, California, United States, 94305
        • Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • current anxiety or depression symptoms
  • internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

  • lifetime psychotic disorder, past-year substance dependence

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Basic Science
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Neurobehavioral computerized tasks
Participants will log into a personalized website and engage in computerized tasks online.
Behavioral: Computerized Neurobehavioral Intervention
Targeted, computerized interventions completed from the participants' own home on a computer.
Active Comparator: Engaging computerized tasks
Participants will log into a personalized website and engage in computerized tasks online.
Behavioral: Computerized Neurobehavioral Intervention
Targeted, computerized interventions completed from the participants' own home on a computer.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Reaction Time to Facial Affect Identification During Emotional Conflict
Time Frame: Baseline, 3-month
A standardized set of facial emotions (fear and happy) were presented for a duration of about 1 second in quick succession (a new face every 3-5 seconds). Across each face was written an emotional word ("FEAR" or "HAPPY"), which could be either congruent or incongruent with the facial expression. The participant was instructed to identify the facial emotion as quickly as possible and ignore the overlaid emotion word. The outcome measure of interest was the average speed (across all trials presented) within which an individual could correctly identify the facial emotion as a function of time (pre or post-intervention), treatment arm (control or intervention), facial affect (fear or happy), and congruency of word and facial affect (congruent or incongruent).
Baseline, 3-month
Amygdala Blood Oxygenation-level Dependent Response (BOLD) Activation to Face Affect Identification During Emotional Conflict
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 Months
The degree of differential BOLD signal change (T2*-weighted contrast in a defined region of the brain as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging) within each individual, averaged across trials, during facial affect identification (fear or happy) and induction of emotional conflict (when the emotion word "FEAR" or "HAPPY" was either congruent or incongruent with the facial expression). We examined the differential degree of amygdala BOLD signal change as a function of emotion type (fear or happy), congruency (congruent or incongruent), and hemisphere (left or right) at baseline and 3 months.
Baseline, 3 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Investigators

  • Study Director: Greg Fonzo, PhD, Stanford University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2013

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 3, 2011

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 7, 2011

First Posted (Estimate)

November 8, 2011

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 20, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 22, 2019

Last Verified

March 1, 2019

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB-19338

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