Tel Aviv University started a clinical trial of Neurological and Psychological Effects of Combat-Related Stress
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Tel Aviv University is starting a new clinical trial of Neurological and Psychological Effects of Combat-Related Stress.
The purpose of this study is to determine what is the neurological and cognitive impact of combat exposure and prolonged stress, in the form of service in the Israeli Defense Forces.
Attention biases in threat processing have been assigned a prominent role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. This study aimed to characterize the mental resilience of combat soldiers, and explore the neuro-cognitive impact of prolonged stress, using eye-tracking, MRI and fMRI measurements. Participants will be assessed using questionnaires, cognitive tasks and magnetic imaging at 5 timepoints over the span of 4 years. Outcome measures will be depression, anxiety and post-traumatic scores, as well as dwell time on threat in eye-tracking paradigms tested in previous studies, and blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements.
The clinical trial started in March 1, 2019 and will continue throughout March 1, 2023.
Soldiers in the paratroopers brigade or students in Tel-Aviv University are the population that can be enrolled into this study includes.
The contacts and locations are the Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. For more details: https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT04651192
