Mood and Thought Process Study
At a glance
Conditions
NCT05585775
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Butler Hospital
Providence, Rhode Islandno site contact published
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Morganne Kraines, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Butler Hospital
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
What this trial measures
- Affective Go/No-Go10-week
This task requires utilizing inhibition to respond to word features (i.e., normal vs. italicized font) rather than word content. In this task, participants are told to respond (via key press) when a go stimulus (i.e., normal text) is presented and to withhold their response when a no-go stimulus (i.e., italicized text) is presented. words are negatively valenced (e.g., hate, sad) or positively valenced (e.g., terrific, win). Conditions are matched on word length and frequency of use in the English language.
- Emotional n-back10-week
Updating will be measured via the n-Back Task. Individuals are presented words on a computer screen, and are asked to indicate (via key press), whether the current word is the same or different from the word presented n times back. The investigators will be using 2-back trials, as these trials are not too difficult so that participants become frustrated, yet engage updating processes. The affective version of the task will be an adapted affective n-back task in which individuals are presented with negative and positive words, and asked to indicate via key press whether the word n-trials back matches the valence (positive or negative) of the current word.
- Affective Internal Switching Task10-week
Shifting will be measured via the Internal Switching Task (IST). Participants are presented with one word on the computer screen at a time, and are asked to keep a silent mental count of how many words they see from two semantic categories (i.e., positive affective words and negative affective words). Participants are instructed to press the spacebar when they have updated their mental count and are ready for the next word. Participants are asked to keep a mental count of how many positive and how many negative words appear in each category, and press the spacebar when they have updated their mental count.
- Depression Symptoms10-week
Participants will complete the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depression Symptoms (Self-Report) measure assessing depression symptoms and associated symptoms.