Status:

COMPLETED

Pharmacological Modulation of Belief Salience

Lead Sponsor:

King's College London

Collaborating Sponsors:

Medical Research Council

Conditions:

Haloperidol

Placebo

Eligibility:

MALE

18-65 years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

To provide an initial test of the hypothesis that dopamine mediates the motivational salience of stimuli beyond simple stimulus-reinforcement associations, the researchers propose to undertake a study...

Detailed Description

Delusions in psychiatry are viewed as a form of aberrant belief. Consequently it is important to understand the cognitive and neural processes involved in beliefs to provide insights into how these pr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Healthy males between the ages of 18-65

Exclusion

  • History or current psychiatric or neurological illness, history or current serious medical diagnosis, BMI outside of normal/healthy range, smoker over 5 cigarettes per day, recent use of drugs, non-english speaker.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03754062

Start Date

June 1 2017

End Date

September 1 2019

Last Update

October 10 2019

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Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences

London, United Kingdom, W1T 7NF