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Udvikling og validering af lærings- og beslutningsopgaver

28. oktober 2026 opdateret af: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Background:

Substance use disorders (SUD) can be considered disorders in the way people process incentives, learn, and make decisions. To understand why some people develop SUD, researchers need to develop reliable tests that show how people think and learn. This natural history study seeks to develop a set of tasks that could then be used to test how people learn and make decisions.

Objective:

To develop and validate behavioral tasks that could be used in future studies.

Eligibility:

Healthy people aged 18-45 years from the Baltimore area. They must also be enrolled in the NIDA screening protocol.

Design:

Participants will perform different tasks. Most tasks require 1-4 study visits; some may require up to 12. Visits are 1-14 days apart. All visits will last about 1-7 hours.

Participants will perform tasks on a computer. As they work they may be given different stimuli:

Smells. Participants will sniff odors through a plastic tube or mask on their nose.

Flavors. Participants will wear a mouthpiece and small amounts of different flavored liquids will be placed in their mouth.

Pictures. Participants will look at different images.

Sounds. Participants will wear headphones and various sounds will be played for them.

Food. Participants may be asked to eat a meal before, during, or after a task. The researchers will provide the meal.

During each task, participants will wear sensors to monitor their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and other physical changes in their bodies.

Some participants will have a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. They will lie on a table that slides into a cylinder. They will perform tasks on a computer screen during the fMRI.

Studieoversigt

Status

Rekruttering

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Study Description:

From a behavioral perspective, substance-use disorders (SUD) can be considered as disorders of incentive processing, learning, and decision-making. The Learning and Decision-Making Unit at NIDA IRP conducts Basic Experimental Studies involving Humans (BESH) to study the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying these functions, and their disruption in SUD. For this, behavioral tasks suitable for use both in and outside the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner need to be developed and validated.

Objectives:

The primary objective of this protocol is to develop and validate behavioral tasks inside and outside the fMRI scanner, and to determine their practical feasibility for future studies.

Endpoints:

The primary endpoint is to determine if the developed tasks reliably and appropriately measure specific cognitive functions, and if they yield measurable and interpretable fMRI results in the associated brain systems.

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Anslået)

550

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiekontakt

Undersøgelse Kontakt Backup

Studiesteder

    • Maryland
      • Baltimore, Maryland, Forenede Stater, 21224
        • Rekruttering
        • National Institute on Drug Abuse
        • Kontakt:

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år til 45 år (Voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ja

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Prøveudtagningsmetode

Ikke-sandsynlighedsprøve

Studiebefolkning

local community sample: metropolitan Baltimore area

Beskrivelse

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:

There are two levels of inclusion and exclusion criteria; those applying to all participants and those applying to participants in the 'MRI' phase only. Participants will be cleared for both the behavioral and MRI phases, if eligible, and will be invited to sign one or both consents depending on what tasks are active at the time of consent. If a person is not MRI compatible, they will only be offered enrollment into the behavioral phase of the study.

In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet the following criteria:

  1. Male or female, aged 18-45 years old. Justification: Many neural processes change with age, and these changes could introduce unwanted variability in both behavioral and MRI signals.

  2. In good general health.

    In order to be eligible to participate in the MRI phase of this study, an individual must - in addition - also meet all of the following criteria:

  3. Right-handed.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Individuals who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation:

  1. History of neurological illnesses or neurosurgery including but not limited to cerebrovascular accident, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, Huntington disease, CNS tumor, significant head trauma with sequelae, multiple sclerosis or other demyelinating diseases, epilepsy, movement disorders. The MAI will also retain discretion to exclude based on a history of a neurological illness or trauma that may compromise data integrity.

  2. History of currently unresolved psychiatric disorders with current (past 12 months) regular use of psychiatric medications. Past/remitted (>12 months ago) psychiatric disorders with no currently active symptoms and no current use of psychiatric medications may be included in the study, per MAI discretion.

  3. Pattern of alcohol and drug use in the past 12 months that is indicative of harmful use, loss of control over use, or physical dependence.

  4. Daily nicotine, alcohol, or drug use (excluding caffeine) for at least 4 continuous weeks in the past 12 months.

  5. Current use of psychoactive medications and medications that affect alertness and that cannot (in principle) be withheld the night before the study visit. Participants who can withhold these medications will either (1) withhold the medication during this time or (2) not withhold the medication and pass a clinical assessment for intoxication on the day of the study visit. Based on participant preferences and MAI/PI judgement, participants who fail the clinical assessment for intoxication will either be withdrawn or rescheduled and asked to withhold the medication.

  6. For tasks that involve gustatory or olfactory stimuli, food intake: History of anaphylaxis, e.g., due to severe asthma or food and non-food allergies (e.g., latex, detergents, soap, etc.). This will disqualify participants for tasks that involve chemosensory stimuli or food intake, but not from the study itself.

  7. Uncorrected impairments in visual acuity.

  8. Non-English speaking. Justification: To include non-English speakers, we would have to translate the consent and other study documents and hire and train bilingual staff, which would require resources that we do not have and could not justify, given the small sample size for each experiment. Additionally, the data integrity of some of the cognitive tasks used in this study would be compromised as they have only been validated in English. Most importantly, ongoing communication regarding safety procedures is necessary when participants are undergoing MRI procedures. The inability to effectively communicate MRI safety procedures in a language other than English could compromise the safety of non-English speaking participants.

  9. Pregnancy.

  10. Any other condition that in the judgment of the investigators is incompatible with participation.

    An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in the MRI phase of this study:

  11. Unable to undergo MRI scanning due to certain metallic or magnetic devices or implants in the body, or claustrophobia.

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Observationsmodeller: CASE_CONTROL
  • Tidsperspektiver: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Kohorter og interventioner

Gruppe / kohorte
Intervention / Behandling
healthy controls

generally healthy volunteers

Enables the use of custom pulse sequence

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
task performance
Tidsramme: each study visit

to determine if the developed tasks reliably and appropriately measure specific cognitive functions, and if they yield measurable and interpretable fMRI results in the associated brain systems.

each study visit

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

Det er her, du vil finde personer og organisationer, der er involveret i denne undersøgelse.

Sponsor

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Thorsten Kahnt, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

29. marts 2023

Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)

31. december 2032

Studieafslutning (Anslået)

31. december 2032

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

31. januar 2023

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

31. januar 2023

Først opslået (Faktiske)

1. februar 2023

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

29. oktober 2026

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

28. oktober 2026

Sidst verificeret

27. oktober 2026

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 10001156
  • 001156-DA

Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)

Planlægger du at dele individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)?

INGEN

IPD-planbeskrivelse

There is no plan to share raw data from the study as this is a study to develop and validate behavioral tasks, to determine if they can reliably and appropriately measure specific functions, and if they yield measurable and interpretable fMRI results in the associated brain systems.

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