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Applying Novel Technologies and Methods to Inform the Ontology of Self-Regulation: Binge Eating and Smoking

NCT03353649 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2019-09-25

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Summary

This study aims to examine targets of self-regulatory function among two exemplar populations for which behavior plays a critical role in health outcomes: smokers and individual who binge eat (BED). This is the second phase of a study that aims to identify putative mechanisms of behavior change to develop an overarching "ontology" of self-regulatory processes.

Conditions

  • Binge Eating
  • Smoking, Tobacco
  • Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Now vs. Later Cue

As we collect data from all participants, we will include manipulations (or "motivating operations") meant to modulate putative targets within the self-regulation domain in each clinical group - to assess the extent to which we can shift self-regulatory function both in desired and undesired directions. More specifically, subjects will see a "now" cue instructing them to think of immediately using/consuming that stimulus or a "later" cue instruction them to think about the long-term consequences of using/consuming that stimulus. The latter cue is intended to down-regulate desire to use/consume the stimulus, and this down-regulation is measured by a subsequent probe asking subjects the degree to which they want to use/consume that stimulus.

DEVICE

fMRI

Subjects will complete the tasks inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging device, allowing us to measure brain activity that while completing each task.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-12-08
Primary Completion
2018-01-14
Completion
2018-01-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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