Neurochemical Modulation Cognitive Performance and Subjective Wellbeing In Healthy Controls
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2011-09-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
This project aims to investigate the effect of modafinil on motivation, creativity, cognitive
performance, and subjective wellbeing in healthy participants. The main task for this
research project is to address how this novel stimulant acutely influences motivation,
divergent and convergent thinking, cognitive performance and subjective wellbeing in
non-sleep deprived healthy young adults.This is a randomised between-subjects parallel group
design study.
Based on the hypothesis that psychostimulants might enhance creativity through the increase
in of dopamine and executive planning in healthy adults , we predict that healthy individuals
who are in the modafinil condition will perform better in the motivation, creativity, and the
cognitive performance tasks. Furthermore, based on the evidence that modafinil increases
dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, putamen and the caudate, we expect specific subjective
well-being and pleasure enhancement associated with modafinil use in healthy young adults.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust