Effects of methylphenidate on language and creativity
- Conditions
- Methylphenidate, language, creativity, memory
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28408
- Lead Sponsor
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Other
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 48
Inclusion Criteria
Healthy volunteers between 18 and 45 years old; Native Dutch speakers.
Exclusion Criteria
(History of) psychiatric or neurological treatment;
(History of) epilepsy in adulthood;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary objective of this study is to investigate the effects of methylphenidate on language processing and creativity, and the role of memory in such relations, through observing the effects of methylphenidate on sentence processing, creativity, and memory tasks.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The secondary objective is to establish the relations between the methylphenidate effects and baseline characteristics of individual subjects.