N-of-few Study of Pain Perception (NOF)

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Counterfactual; Behavioral: Symbolic conditioning; Behavioral: Conditioning; Behavioral: Instructions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04664400

230134

5R01MH076136 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

A behavioral study that will examine how pain perception is affected by different types of conditioning and by context, with a few participants and multiple sessions ("N-of-few" design).

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy participants

Exclusion criteria

• Cannot tolerate heat pain applied to the forearm/leg, based on a calibration task at the beginning of the experiment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

N-of-few Study of Pain

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Symbolic conditioning

Behavioral: Counterfactual

Behavioral: Instructions

Behavioral: Conditioning