Assessing and training fear inhibition in spider phobia via eye-movements
- Conditions
- Inhibitory control in specific phobia of the animal typus (spider).Mental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN12918583
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Siegen
- Brief Summary
2023 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38113211/ (added 08/01/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
1. 18-65 years
2. Specific phobia (animal-subtype: spider) and healthy controls
3. Normal or corrected-to normal vision
4. Normal hearing
1. Lifetime diagnosis of substance-related bipolar or psychotic disorder
2. Current psychiatric disorder or a psychiatric disorder in the past (exception for spider phobics: past mild to moderate depressive episode and/or current or past specific phobia of the animal typus)
3. Medication (Benzodiazepine, Barbiturate)
4. Neurological disorder (especially epilepsy)
5. Dementia
6. Injury of the central nervous system
7. Hearing disorder (also tinnitus anamnestic), subjective auditory hypersensitivity (like hyperacusis)
8. Regular nicotine consumption (>5 cigarettes/day)
9. Known allergy to bites of insects or arachnids
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method