Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02463981
Anterior Insula Regulation and Pain Empathy
Voluntary Anterior Insula Regulation Impacts Pain Empathy and Functional Connectivity: a Real-time fMRI Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 37 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 30 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The aim is to test whether rtfMRI-based neurofeedback training on anterior insula impacts pain empathy.
Detailed description
In the present study, investigators plan to use the real-time fMRI neurofeedback to train healthy subjects to learn volitional control over their own anterior insula (AI) activity. Then the effect of AI regulation will assessed by examining subjects' empathic responses and functional connectivity changes. Subjects were separated into two groups randomly. While the experimental group received specific neurofeedback from their own AI, the control group received sham NF from an unspecific region.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | real-time fMRI neurofeedback training running on Turbo Brain voyager (TBV) 3.2 (Brain Innovation, Maastricht, The Netherlands) |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-07-01
- Completion
- 2015-07-01
- First posted
- 2015-06-08
- Last updated
- 2022-02-09
- Results posted
- 2018-01-04
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02463981. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.