Effects of Verbal Instructions on Fear Extinction and Extinction Retrieval
Anxiety Disorder
About this trial
This is an interventional basic science trial for Anxiety Disorder focused on measuring anxiety disorders, fear extinction, fear conditioning, instructions, contingencies
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: For the patient group: DSM-5 anxiety disorder diagnosis via a structured clinical interview for diagnosing mental disorders (DIPS) For the healthy controls: no psychological disorder according to the Mini-DIPS Exclusion Criteria: smoking alcohol abuse drug consumption current and chronic physical and neurological diseases for the patient group: anxiety not the primary diagnosis, psychological comorbidities e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mental retardation, acute drug or alcohol addiction, personality disorder, currently in psychotherapy for the healthy controls: a diagnosis of psychological disorder at any point in life, ever been in psychotherapy, current and/or regular intake of medicine (incl. psychopharmaceutic medicine), current or past cognitive or neurological disorder for women: pregnancy, nursing period previous experience with fear conditioning paradigm
Sites / Locations
- Ruhr University BochumRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
No Intervention
Explicit instructions before + after extinction
Explicit instructions before extinction
Explicit instructions after extinction
No explicit instructions