Neurobehavioral Intervention as a Novel Treatment Approach for Emotion-Regulatory Deficits

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Computerized Neurobehavioral Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01466751

IRB-19338

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study will explore the effectiveness of a computer based neurobehavioral intervention in alleviating symptoms and improving emotion regulation in psychiatric populations. It will increase understanding of psychopathology at a neural-circuit level and aid development of new non-pharmacological treatment for emotion regulatory deficits.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• current anxiety or depression symptoms
• internet access

Exclusion criteria

• lifetime psychotic disorder, past-year substance dependence

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Engaging computerized tasks

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will log into a personalized website and engage in computerized tasks online.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Computerized Neurobehavioral Intervention

Neurobehavioral computerized tasks

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will log into a personalized website and engage in computerized tasks online.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Computerized Neurobehavioral Intervention