NCT03437317: PTL

Emotional Perceptual Training as a Treatment for Social Anxiety: Behavioral and Neural Evidence.

Completed NA Last updated 19 February 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Perceptual Retraining in Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms in 154 participants. Completed in 15 December 2016.

Timeline

1 November 2014

Primary endpoint
15 December 2016

15 December 2016

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Florida State University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	154
Start date	1 November 2014
Primary completion	15 December 2016
Estimated completion	15 December 2016

Drugs / interventions tested

• Perceptual Retraining
• Gender Discrimination

Conditions studied

• Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms — all drugs for Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms →
• Social Anxiety Disorder — all drugs for Social Anxiety Disorder →

Sponsor

Florida State University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 35, any sex, with Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms or Social Anxiety Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The Perceptual Training Study is a series of studies performed with the purpose of identifying a potential avenue for treatment of mood disorders, particularly anxiety-based mood disorders. The underlying theme is that neural representations may be threat-oriented, and may also be generalized to non-threatening cues by means of similarity to threatening representations. These may result in anxiety symptoms from innocuous cues. The idea behind the perceptual training is to create a divorce between the threat representations and cues which should be considered non-threatening, enhancing perceptual acuity and potentially reducing anxiety symptoms.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.