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NCT05413512

Stressor-evoked Brain and Cardiovascular Responses to Acute Psychological Stress

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 24 June 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Acute psychological stress in Acute Psychological Stress in 170 participants. Completed in 30 September 2021.

Timeline
2 March 2020
Primary endpoint
30 September 2021
30 September 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsorBaylor University
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposebasic science
Enrollment170
Start date2 March 2020
Primary completion30 September 2021
Estimated completion30 September 2021
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Baylor University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 30, any sex, with Acute Psychological Stress. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Stressor-evoked Oxygen Consumption in mL/(kg·Min) (Stress - Baseline) Primary · 18 minutes (approximately 9 minutes for each task)

Stressor-evoked oxygen consumption. (Oxygen consumption during acute psychological stress task - Oxygen consumption during resting baseline).

Stroop task
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress Task0.265± 0.452
MSIT task
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress Task0.287± 0.431
Heart Rate (Bpm) Measured by Electrocardiogram Primary · 18 minutes (approximately 9 minutes for each stress task)

Stressor-evoked heart rate. (Heart rate during acute psychological stress task - Heart rate during resting baseline).

Stroop task
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress4.926± 7.456
MSIT
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress2.826± 6.317
Neural Activity Measured by fMRI Primary · 18 minutes (approximately 9 minutes for each stress task).

Stressor-evoked neural activity. Incongruent-vs-Congruent t at the group-level, filtered at 0.05 after FDR correction and with a cluster extent of 50 voxels.

L Parietal_inf (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.71± 0.41
R Angular (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.54± 0.35
R Supp_Motor_Area (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress1± 0.65
L Frontal_Inf_Tri (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.85± 0.56
L Parietal_Inf2 (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.66± 0.45
R Insula (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.70± 0.50
R Frontal_Inf_Oper (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.76± 0.60
R Vermis (stroop)
GroupValue95% CI
Acute Psychological Stress0.84± 0.68

Sponsor's own description

The present study will examine cardiovascular, metabolic, and neural responses to acute psychological stress using a cross-sectional approach.

Publications & conference data

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

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