Exploring Learning and Unlearning of Fear

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The present study investigates the effect of d-cycloserine on learning and unlearning of fear in healthy humans and its underlying effect on the amygdala.

As a second objective, the effect of genotype on fear learning will be studied.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
• Treatments: Cycloserine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• No axis I diagnosis compatible with the DSM-IV by means of a structured diagnostic interview

• Right-handed

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current psychopharmacological or psychological treatment.

• The presence of a physical/medical condition that may interfere with the study.

• A contraindication for the use of DCS

• Pacemaker, medication pump (such as insulin pump), hearing aid, removable prosthodontics

• Metal in or on body (such as acupuncture needles, artificial limbs, stents, metal splints, clips, implanted electrodes, tattoos, or piercings)