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taVNS Effects on Fear Ratings in Naturalistic Context

NCT06975124 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2025-05-16

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Summary

During the fear rating task, 70 participants viewed a 600-second horror movie while continuously rating their subjective fear intensity (0-100 scale) every 0.51 seconds (1,170 total ratings). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data were simultaneously recorded using the NIRSIT LITE system to monitor cortical hemodynamic responses.

Conditions

  • Healthy Participants

Interventions

DEVICE

transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation

Ear clip electrodes attached to the left cymba conchae to target vagus nerve branches.

DEVICE

Sham condition

Electrode placement attached on the left earlobe.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-01
Primary Completion
2025-06-01
Completion
2025-07-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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