Experimental Study on Alcohol Use and Behavior in Young Adults
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2025-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The goal of this double blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial is to compare
intranasal oxytocin and placebo in young adult individuals with alcohol use disorder as
compared to healthy controls. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- The effect of oxytocin versus placebo on prosocial behavior in individuals with high-
versus low alcohol use
- The effect of oxytocin versus placebo on impulsivity, emotion recognition, social
learning, and alcohol craving in individuals with high- versus low alcohol use
Participants in both groups will on two separate visits perform the following validated
behavioral task measures:
- Dictator game tasks assessing prosocial behavior
- Delay discounting task assessing impulsivity
- Emotion recognition task assessing emotion recognition
- Alcohol cue craving task assessing alcohol craving
- Observational fear learning task assessing social learning
Researchers will compare groups of high and low alcohol use to see if there is a difference
in effect of oxytocin versus placebo between groups.