Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03781570
Brain and Genetic Predictors of Individual Differences in Pain and Analgesia
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 541 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 55 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of the study is to gain a better understanding of pain processing in the brain. Our understanding of how pain is processed in the brain is limited. We are testing for individual differences in pain perception and emotion.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Placebo Cream | In the Placebo intervention, participants are given an inert cream with instructions that it is "Prodicaine, an effective pain-relieving drug". The cream is applied to two fingers on the left hand. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Control Cream | In the Control intervention, participants are given an inert cream with instructions that it is "a control cream with no effects" . The cream is applied to two fingers on the left hand. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-11-07
- Primary completion
- 2023-10-01
- Completion
- 2023-10-01
- First posted
- 2018-12-20
- Last updated
- 2025-06-04
- Results posted
- 2025-05-21
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03781570. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.