NCT05369169

Afferent Neurocardiac Signals, Cue Reactivity, and Cognitive Control

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Conscious attempts to regulate alcohol use are often undermined by automatic attention and arousal processes activated by alcohol cues, as well as by diminished ability to inhibit in-the-moment behaviors. The current study will examine whether a brief behavioral intervention of slow breathing paced at a resonance frequency of the cardiovascular system can interrupt automatic alcohol cue reactivity and enhance cognitive control in binge drinkers. Results from the proposed study may provide new prevention and intervention targets to interrupt unhealthy drinking behaviors.

Conditions

• Binge Drinking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Resonance breathing	Participants will synchronize their breathing with a visual pacer (E-Z Air, Thought Technology, Ltd., Plattsburgh, NY) that moves up (inhale) and down (exhale) at the rate of 0.1 Hz (6 breaths per min)
BEHAVIORAL	Low demand cognitive task	Different colored rectangles are presented for 10 sec each, and participants are instructed to silently count the number of blue rectangles

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-30
• Completion: 2023-04-30
• First posted: 2022-05-11
• Last updated: 2022-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States