Status:

UNKNOWN

Does Depression Impact Our Memory for Rewarding Experiences

Lead Sponsor:

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

Collaborating Sponsors:

German Research Foundation

Conditions:

Depression

Eligibility:

All Genders

20-45 years

Brief Summary

When individuals experience depression, they may find that their brain does not work in the same way that they are used to. For example, sometimes the ability to remember things that happened during t...

Detailed Description

Sleep, at its basis, is known to be an important factor for mental health outcomes, yet the contribution of sleep dependent memory consolidation to those outcomes is poorly understood. In depression, ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria
  • Prolific approval rating of at least 95% and have participated in at least 10 studies on Prolific.
  • Country of residence: United Kingdom
  • Aged between 20-45
  • Education level: At least A-levels or equivalent
  • Participants must use a computer or laptop to participate.
  • Participants must not have participated in the study conducted to validate the images used in this experiment and in the experiment from our previous preregistrations.
  • Participants must not have participated in the previous studies which used the stimuli for this task.
  • Exclusion criteria
  • Participants who incorrectly answer the practice trials and/or the questions of either the learning or test phases of the Motivated Learning Task. (For every question, they can try twice. Only if they get it wrong twice for a given practice phase/question they are excluded.)
  • Participants with reaction times below 150ms in more than 20 % of the flanker task and/or the PVT. (These are considered implausibly fast reaction times that indicate that participants did not participate in the task the way it is intended, e.g., random key presses or clicking)
  • who have 20% or more lapses (reaction times above 1000 ms) on the PVT.
  • Participants who incorrectly respond on \> 50% of the flanker task, indicating they did not pay attention to the task.
  • Participants with a d' of 0 and below, indicating chance or worse than chance performance.
  • Participants who do not complete both parts of the experiment.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    May 1 2022

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    May 1 2022

    Estimated Enrollment :

    400 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT05276583

    Start Date

    May 1 2022

    End Date

    May 1 2022

    Last Update

    March 11 2022

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    Central Institute of Mental Health

    Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 68159