Empathy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on Impulsivity and Empathy in a Non-clinical Population
NCT number | NCT03200873 |
Other study ID # | C200317 |
Secondary ID | |
Status | Completed |
Phase | N/A |
First received | |
Last updated | |
Start date | May 17, 2017 |
Est. completion date | December 30, 2017 |
Verified date | October 2017 |
Source | University of Nottingham |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
Impulsivity describes the tendency to make risky and unplanned decisions, to pick immediate reward over a bigger reward after a period of time or to not be able to resist the urge to do something. Empathy refers to the ability to be sensitive to and vicariously experience other people's feelings and to create working models of emotional states. Recent neuroscientific research have found that the right frontal part of the brain (left dorsal lateral frontal cortex, LDLPFC) is important in the control of impulsive behaviour and empathy. Self-report questionnaires have been proven valid measures at assessing impulsivity and empathy. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is a widely used non-invasive brain stimulation procedure; stimulation can be applied at different brain regions depending on the administration method. It temporally changes the way that this part of the brain functions, providing us a further understanding of how this part works. Recent research has found that rTMS on the LDLPFC changes performance-based tasks measuring different types of impulsivity and empathy. This study aims to investigate this further to look at the RDLPFC stimulation and its effects on empathy and two different types of impulsivity. Of interest is also how innate impulsive personality type and empathy trait relate to performance on these tasks.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 33 |
Est. completion date | December 30, 2017 |
Est. primary completion date | December 30, 2017 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Male |
Age group | 18 Years to 30 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Male students or staff in University of Nottingham - aged 18-30 years. - normal or corrected-to-normal vision - BIS-11 scored above 71 or between 52 to 62 - Ability to give informed consent Exclusion Criteria: - Have ever suffered an epileptic fit - Have had a brain injury or neurological disorder - Have any non-removable metal implants in your head - Have a family history of brain injury or epilepsy - Drink more than 20 units of alcohol per week on a regular basis - Currently take any illicit drugs - Ever were dependent on illicit drugs or alcohol - Ever suffered from a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, severe depression or bipolar disorder - Currently take any psychiatric medication |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United Kingdom | Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability] | The frequency of adverse events from each participant | through study completion, an average within 1 week | |
Primary | Impulsivity (performance-based) | P(correct) from IST and K value from AAT | (usually 20 mins apart) the time just before rTMS and right after rTMS (usually 20 mins apart) | |
Primary | empathy (performance-based) | correct scores from RMET | baseline and right after rTMS (usually 20 mins apart) | |
Secondary | Correlation between self-reported and performance-based impulsivity | correlation coefficient between [P(correct)], K value and AUC and UPPS-P and BIS-11 | baseline | |
Secondary | Correlation between self-reported and performance-based empathy | correlation coefficient between RMET correct score and QCAE | baseline |
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