At a glance
ClinicalIndex Comparison Record- ✓Males and females
- ✓Age 18–50 years
- ✕Pregnancy
- ✕Any current ongoing medical illness
- ✕Current Axis I psychiatric disorders
- ✕Past significant psychiatric disorders (e.g., psychotic disorders per DSM-IV)
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Effects of Arousal and Stress on Classical Conditioning
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Shock Device and Auditory Startle Device for Healthy Volunteers. Completed, enrolled 1,418 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This study has several parts. One part will examine the influence of factors such as personality and past experience on reactions to unpleasant stimuli. Others will examine the effect of personality and emotional and attentional states on learning and memory. When confronted with fearful or unpleasant events, people can develop fear of specific cues that were associated with these events as well as to the environmental context in which the events occurred via a process called classical conditioning. Classical conditioning has been used to model anxiety disorders, but the relationship between stress and anxiety and conditioned responses remains unclear. This study will examine the relationship between cued conditioning and context conditioning . This study will also explore the acquisition and retention of different types of motor, emotional, and cognitive associative processes during various tasks that range from mildly arousing to stressful.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Shock Device
Auditory Startle Device