Oxytocin's Effect on Attention Training

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-12-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

This study aims to investigate oxytocin's effect on attentional bias training. Healthy participants will undergo a dot-probe task-based training to direct their attention away from negative stimuli (as compared to neutral). Effects of the training will be assessed using an eye-tracking anti-saccade task.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Treatments: Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• male participants with elevated trait anxiety (> 45 scores as assessed with the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, Spielberger, 1983)

• without past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of head injury

• medical or psychiatric illness

• smoking or drinking 24 hours before the experiment