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Games & Well-Being Study

NCT01886911 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 192

Last updated 2015-10-02

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Summary

This project is focused on the neural and behavioral correlates of two different videos games that will be used as training tools. The two video games, developed by the Games Learning Society research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, are tailored to train mindfulness, particularly the regulation of attention; and prosocial behavior, especially sensitivity to others, in adolescents. This study will evaluate the hypothesis that systematic playing of mindfulness and prosocial games will change brain function in specific attentional, social and emotional circuits in potentially beneficial ways, and will impact performance on cognitive tasks of attention, and on measures of social cue perception and the propensity to share and behave altruistically. The investigators will employ behavioral and functional MRI-based neuroimaging measures to evaluate the investigators hypothesis.

Conditions

  • Attentional Processing
  • Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

Attention Training Intervention Game

OTHER

Prosocial Training Intervention Game

OTHER

Control for Attention Intervention

OTHER

Control for Prosocial Intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard Davidson, PhD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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