NCT01128309

Stress Reduction and Anxiety: Effects on the Function and Structure of the Brain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to test whether Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) patients that participate in a Stress Reduction Intervention show a brain activation pattern (assessed by MRI) indicative of improved emotion regulation compared to an active control intervention.

Conditions

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stress Reduction Intervention	eight week group program, plus daily homework practice
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control intervention	weekly group meetings for eight weeks, plus daily homework practice

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-04-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2010-05-21
• Last updated: 2012-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States