NCT03148678

Scrutinizing and Promoting Mindfulness Via New Technologies

Scrutinizing and Promoting Mindfulness Via New Technologies: Smartphone-based Assessment and Micro-intervention and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) (-Neurofeedback)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall goal of the outlined study is to scrutinize and to promote mindfulness via new technologies using a combination of smartphone-based assessment and micro-interventions, fMRI and real-time fMRI-neurofeedback.

Detailed description

The overall goal of the outlined study is to scrutinize and to promote mindfulness via new technologies using a combination of smartphone-based assessment and micro-interventions, fMRI and real-time fMRI-neurofeedback. More specifically, we aim to i) evaluate whether smartphone-based micro-interventions affect mindfulness, stress, and mood, ii) evaluate whether mindfulness, its neural substrate, and related mental and physiological functions can be modified by training volitional control over brain activity by means of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (RT-fMRI-NF), iii) differentiate neural activation patterns during mindfulness vs. mind wandering.

Conditions

• Mindfulness
• Stress
• Mood
• Working Memory

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness	Subjects are provided with smartphone-based mindfulness intervention.
OTHER	Contingent RT-fMRI-NF	Subjects are provided with contingent RT-fMRI-NF of their own brain activity.
OTHER	Sham RT-fMRI-NF	Subjects are provided with sham RT-fMRI-NF of brain activity of previously recorded subject.
BEHAVIORAL	Mind Wandering	Subjects are provided with smartphone-based mind wandering intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-31
• Primary completion: 2019-03-05
• Completion: 2019-03-05
• First posted: 2017-05-11
• Last updated: 2024-12-16

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: South Korea, Switzerland