Developmental changes of brain activity related with moral judgment -fMRI study-

Developmental changes of brain activity related with moral judgment -fMRI study- - Developmental changes of brain activity related with moral judgment -fMRI study-

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000043482

Enrollment

Registered

2021-04-01

Start date

2021-03-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

typical developmental children/adults

Interventions

moral judgment to visually presented stimuli(child group) moral judgment to visually presented stimuli(adult group) moral judgment to visually presented stimuli(aged group)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Healthy individuals who meet the following criteria are eligible. 1. 12-15 years old (mainly junior high school students), 18-24 years old (mainly university students), and 60-65 years old at the time of obtaining consent 2. Those who have obtained consent for this study by signing a consent form by themselves or a substitute.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Those who meet any of the following conditions will not be included in this study: 1. history of head trauma with disturbance of consciousness for more than 5 minutes 2. History of organic brain disease. 3. History of psychiatric disorders in life history. 4. memory or current symptoms of substance abuse (e.g., alcohol) 5. taking central nervous system agonists (psychotropic drugs, antiepileptic drugs, sleeping pills, etc.) 6. history of clouding of consciousness, convulsive seizures except for febrile convulsions 7. chronic headache symptoms 8. color blindness 9. Those who are unable to undergo an MRI examination. 10. If the researcher judges that the subject is inappropriate for other reasons.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Age group comparison of BOLD signal changes measured by fMRI during moral judgment	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Anti-social personality measured by Japanese ver. of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen 2. personality measured by Japanese ver. of Ten Item Personality Inventory 3. the motivations assumed to underlie forgiving from the Japanese Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Scale 4. Apologizable scale from the Japanese Proclivity to Apologize Measure (J-PAM) 5. Forgiveness scale from the Japanese Trait Forgivingness Scale (J-TFS) 6. IQ from WISC-IV or WAIS-IV 7. Loneliness scale from Japanese UCLA Loneliness Scale 8. brain volumes from VBM 9. neural fiber information from DTI 10. Default mode brain activity from rs-fMRI	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Anti-social personality measured by Japanese ver. of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen 2. personality measured by Japanese ver. of Ten Item Personality Inventory 3. the motivations assumed to underlie forgiving from the Japanese Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Scale 4. Apologizable scale from the Japanese Proclivity to Apologize Measure (J-PAM) 5. Forgiveness scale from the Japanese Trait Forgivingness Scale (J-TFS) 6. IQ from WISC-IV or WAIS-IV 7. Loneliness scale from Japanese UCLA Loneliness Scale 8. brain volumes from VBM 9. neural fiber information from DTI 10. Default mode brain activity from rs-fMRI

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactHirotoshi Hiraishi

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Biofunctional Imaging

hiraishi@hama-med.ac.jp053-435-2466

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026