Investigation of the effect of reward-contingent audiovisual stimuli on decision-making in a virtual gambling game.
- Conditions
- Healthy probandsF63.0Pathological gambling
- Registration Number
- DRKS00018922
- Lead Sponsor
- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
Men and women between 18 and 65 years
- fulfillment of the diagnostic criteria of pathological gambling (DSM-V)
- Sufficient ability to communicate with the investigators, to answer questions in oral and written form
- Ability to consent after detailed written education (Fully Informed Consent)
- informed consent has to be in written form (Written Informed Consent)
- Normal or correctable (with contact lenses) poor eyesight
- Withdrawal of the declaration of consent
- alcohol intoxication (breath alcohol concentration> 0.0 ‰)
- Axis I disorder according to DSM V (except: pathological gambling, nicotine addiction, mood disorders)
- Currently existing manic episode
- Currently existing major depressive episode
- Currently existing Schizoaffective disorder
- Non-correctable visual impairment
- use of psychotropic drugs within the last 7 days (except: taking antidepressants if their dose was unchanged for at least 30 days).
- Current substance abuse (THC, amphetamine, opiates, benzodiazepines, barbiturates and cocaine)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Frequency of choice of risky alternative in condition with and without win-concurrent stimuli
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - duration of fixation of win-concurrent cues;<br>- Duration of fixation of risk and reward information;<br>- pupil size in the anticipation phase;<br>- pupil size in the reward phase;<br>- eye blink rate