Psychotherapy in social anxiety disorder and alterations in neural processing (PANDA) – pilot study

Psychotherapy in social anxiety disorder and alterations in neural processing (PANDA) – pilot study - PANDA-Pilot

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00020743

Enrollment

Registered

2020-03-05

Start date

2019-12-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

F40.1

Interventions

Group 1: Arm 1: patients with social anxiety disorder Group 2: Arm 2: Healthy controls

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: We will recruit participants between 18-65 years, from a patient population that is diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (F40.1). Participants will be diagnosed according to DSM-5 criteria, based on the SKID-I, axis 1: anxiety disorder section. Participants from the healthy control will be between 18-65 years old and will be included if they do not suffer under any mental disorder according to DSM-5 criteria.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Participants will be excluded if they suffer from a current severe depression with or without psychotic symptoms (F32.2, F32.3, F33.2 or F33.3), current borderline or antisocial personality disorder, current suicidality, current life-time schizophrenic spectrum disorder, manic disorder (F2x.x) and bipolar (F31.x), current substance dependency (alcohol, heroin, amphetamin, cocain; at least 12 months), current severe neurological disorder of the central nervous system, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiac disease, Body Mass Index >35 or 50mg per day, neuroleptics with a dosage of > 30% of the daily dosage.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Comparison of patients with SAD and healthy controls between social-evaluative conditions: Working memory performance, electrodermal activity, heart rate, PANAS self-report	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
ASI-3 (Anxiety Sensitivity Index) BDI-2 (Beck’s Depression Inventory) PSS-10 (Perceived Stress Scale) DERS (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale)	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactMatthias Haucke

AB Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Univerisät Berlin

hauckema@zedat.fu-berlin.de+49(0)30 838 63227

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026