Status:
COMPLETED
Neurobiological Bases of Paternal Nurturance
Lead Sponsor:
James K. Rilling, PhD
Collaborating Sponsors:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Conditions:
Healthy
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The overall goal of this project is to identify the genetic, hormonal, and neurobiological influences on paternal nurturing behavior and to determine if fathers' neural responses to infants can be mod...
Detailed Description
30 fathers of children aged 1-3 will participate in two functional imaging sequence (fMRI) sessions, once under the influence of OT/AVP, and once under the influence of placebo. Fathers will be restri...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- above 18
- biological fathers of 1-3 year old infants who are currently cohabitating with the child's mother
- normal or corrected-to-normal vision of 20/40
Exclusion
- current or past history of mental illness
- active medical or neurological disorder
- current or past history of alcohol or drug dependence
- claustrophobic (at the discretion of the PI with subject consultation)
- history of seizures or other neurological disorder
- history of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, nephritis, diabetes or other endocrine diseases or malignancy
- ferrous metal in any part of the body
- history of asthma or migraine headaches (can be included at the discretion of the study physician or nurse practitioner if episodes are infrequent and no active problems at time of study, not medicated)
- history of head trauma or psychiatric illness, as well as those who are receiving or have received over the past year, medication with known psychoactive effects (included at the discretion of the PI as these are exclusion criteria due to data quality concerns and not safety concerns; head trauma should be minimal enough deemed by the PI)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2014
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
35 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02223429
Start Date
August 1 2014
End Date
February 1 2016
Last Update
June 5 2017
Active Locations (2)
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1
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30307
2
Emory University 1462 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322