NCT03869489

Decision Making in Video Games

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tufts University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex induces approach motivation, and whether anodal tDCS applied to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex induces avoidance motivation. This study consists of three experiments: one in which an approach/avoidance video game is validated, one in which the effect of anger and fear on approach/avoidance is studied, and one in which the effect of tDCS is studied. Only the experiment in which the effect of tDCS is studied involves tDCS.

Conditions

• Cognitive Change

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Anodal left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS stimulation	Anodal tDCS will be applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of participants
DEVICE	Anodal right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tDCS stimulation	Anodal tDCS will be applied to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of participants
DEVICE	Sham tDCS stimulation	Sham tDCS stimulation will be applied

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-04-01
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2019-03-11
• Last updated: 2019-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study