Clinical trials: Risk-taking
Pathological Gambling
An Open-Label Study of N-Acetyl Cysteine in Pathological Gambling
After completing all screening evaluations, subjects will receive unblinded N-Acetyl Cysteine 600 mg/day for 2 weeks. The dose will be raised to 1200 mg/day at visit 4 and to 1800 mg/day at visit 6 unless clinical improvement has…
- Trial name
- NCT00273702
- Testing
- N-Acetyl Cysteine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
HIV Infections
Safety and Effectiveness of Anti-HIV Vaccines in HIV-Negative Adults
The purpose of this study is to find out whether three different anti-HIV vaccines are safe and whether they help prevent HIV infection. These vaccines are called vCP205, vCP1433, and vCP1452.
- Trial name
- NCT00000904
- Testing
- ALVAC(2)120(B,MN)GNP (vCP1452), gp160 MN/LAI-2, ALVAC(1)120(B,MN)GNP (vCP1433)
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Pathological Gambling
Dopamine Responsivity in Gamblers
This study deals with how people decide between rewards of different value. The investigators want to understand how the brain's dopamine system impacts this kind of decision making.
- Trial name
- NCT02772978
- Testing
- Tolcapone
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Sexual Behavior, Alcohol Drinking
Adolescent Safer Sex Social Network Intervention
Social networks are thought to hold the potential for shaping behavior on the grounds that social and situational factors more strongly influence behavior than do personality variables.
- Conditions
- Sexual Behavior, Alcohol Drinking, Marijuana Smoking
- Trial name
- NCT00107562
- Testing
- Adolescent Safer Sex Social Network Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Child, Only, Chronic Renal Failure in Children
The Effect of a Mobile Game Application on Children With CRF
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a mobile game application developed for children with Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) on disease management. The study was a randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Child, Only, Chronic Renal Failure in Children, Gambling, Disease
- Trial name
- NCT07162220
- Testing
- The clinic's routine education program, Mobile game app
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 68 people
- Sponsor
- Akdeniz University
Alcohol Consumption
Effect of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Neural Processes During Decisions to Engage in HIV Risk Behaviors
Background: People who binge drink are more likely to have risky sexual encounters, and alcohol changes brain activity associated with reward decisions related to those behaviors.
- Trial name
- NCT04360018
- Testing
- Alcohol beverage
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Gambling, Pathological
Adding Contingency Management to Treatment as Usual for Disordered Gambling.
The aim of this study is to conduct a trial to investigate the efficacy of adding Contingency Management (CM) to Treatment as Usual (TAU) for the treatment of Disordered Gambling.
- Trial name
- NCT02613754
- Testing
- Contingency Management, Treatment as Usual
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Lethbridge
Risk-Taking, Chronic Stress
Reduce High-risk Behaviours Under Chronic Stress Via tDCS-induced Neural Plasticity
The persistent political conflicts and COVID-19 pandemic have led to elevated chronic stress levels in Hong Kong, with far-reaching and profound negative impacts on the citizen's mental health.
- Trial name
- NCT05501951
- Testing
- tDCS stimulation
- Volunteers
- 255 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- LI Cheng
Gambling, Pathological Gambling
Indicated Prevention With At-Risk Gamblers
The overall purpose of this study is to reduce the prevalence of gambling risk in college students by evaluating the effectiveness of different treatments in reducing gambling behavior and related negative consequences.
- Conditions
- Gambling, Pathological Gambling, Problem Gambling
- Trial name
- NCT00078273
- Testing
- Personalized Feedback Intervention, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 225 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Risk Behavior
Evaluation of Values in Perspective (VIP) Program
The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and perceived usefulness of the Values in Perspective (VIP) program in reducing and preventing engagement in risky behaviors among youths.
- Trial name
- NCT04879342
- Testing
- VIP Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 850 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Gambling Disorder
Effect of High-Intensity Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Gambling Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The investigators assume that High-intensity transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (HI-tACS) could improve gambling disorder patients' executive-control function by modulating abnormal neural activity, particularly…
- Trial name
- HITACSRCT-GD (NCT07228182)
- Testing
- HI-tACS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Mental Health Center
Substance Use Disorder
OPAL: "Opiates and PhArmacoLogy"
The aim of this study is to determine the current prevalence of co-addictions, including problem/pathological gambling, in patients receiving Opiate Substitution Treatment (OST), and to then compare patients receiving OST with or…
- Trial name
- OPAL (NCT01847729)
- Where
- 7 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 263 people
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital
Health Behavior
Sustainable HIV Risk Reduction Strategies for Probationers
The purpose of the Texas Christian University (TCU) Disease Risk Reduction (DRR2) Project is to develop and test a self-administered tablet computer app, StaySafe, for probationers under community supervision that is designed to…
- Trial name
- DRR2 (NCT02777086)
- Testing
- StaySafe
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 511 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Texas Christian University
Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder
Is Craving a Central Criterion for Diagnosing a Behavioral Addiction?
This study is a cross-sectional observational study designed to evaluate the diagnostic criteria for behavioral addictions (gambling, online video game disorder, screen addiction, food addiction, and pathological use of sex…
- Conditions
- Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder, Gambling, Technology Addiction
- Trial name
- CRIBA (NCT07854912)
- Testing
- Questionnaires, Telephone interview
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Bordeaux
Risk Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Utilization of the Community Popular Opinion Leader (C-POL) Model in Alabama
Community members within the treatment city will report: 1)engaging in fewer sexual risk practices; 2)significantly higher condom use; 3) significantly higher rates of STD care seeking (including STD screening behaviors); 4)…
- Trial name
- NCT00260754
- Testing
- Community-Popular Opinion Leader Model, Diffusion of Innovations
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gambling
Drug Treatment for Pathologic Gambling Disorder
This study will establish the best dose of the drug naltrexone to treat patients with Pathological Gambling Disorder (PGD) and severe urge symptoms.
- Trial name
- NCT00053677
- Testing
- Naltrexone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation, Gambling
Brain Mechanism and Intervention of Executive-control Dysfunction Among Gambling Disorder
The investigators assume that transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) could improve gambling disorder patients' executive-control function by adjusting the synchronization patterns and enhancing the functional…
- Trial name
- NCT06195995
- Testing
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation-true stimulus
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Mental Health Center
Gambling Disorder
Don't Go There: A Geospatial mHealth App for Gambling Disorder
The goal of this project is to develop and to test the efficacy of a novel mHealth app for gambling disorder. The app capitalizes on smartphones' global positioning software (GPS) that recognizes a user's location to within 15…
- Trial name
- NCT04158037
- Testing
- mHealth App
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- St. Louis University
Pathological Gambling
Repeated Low-frequency Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces Cue-induced Craving: a Randomized, Prospective, Double-blind, Sham-controlled, Cross-over Study
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of repeated low-frequency Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, combined with gambling cues, on gambling craving.
- Trial name
- STIMJEU (NCT01560351)
- Testing
- rTMS
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital
Pathological or "at Risk" Gambling
Transversal Multiaxial Evaluation and 5-year Follow-up of a Cohort of French Gamblers (JEU)
This study is divided into two stages. The first stage is a transversal study and corresponds to the recruitment of participants, which will last about two years.
- Trial name
- NCT01207674
- Testing
- Summons of patients and filling questionnaire
- Where
- 7 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 641 people
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital