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The relation between cognitive performance and decision making: modulation with modafinil

The relation between cognitive performance and decision making: modulation with modafinil - Cognition and decision making

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON49250
Enrollment
142
Registered
2019-02-06
Start date
2019-05-16
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-04-15

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Conditions

geen aandoening not applicable

Interventions

Given the between-subjects design, subjects will either receive placebo or 200 mg modafinil. The medication will be administered orally. The participants will be asked to perform various tests relat

Sponsors

Universiteit Maastricht
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 64 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: • In the opinion of the investigator, the participant is capable of understanding and complying with protocol requirements. • The participant is male or female. • The participant has a body mass index of 18.5-30 kg/m2, inclusive, as stated in the medical screening form. • The participant is aged 18 to 40 years, inclusive, at the time of informed consent. • The volunteer is healthy, i.e., the absence of all exclusion criteria and had normal or corrected to normal static binocular acuity with or without correction. • The participant signs and dates a written informed consent form before the start of the experiment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: • The subject has an uncontrolled, clinically significant neurologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, metabolic, gastrointestinal, or endocrine disease or other abnormality which may impact the ability of the subject to participate or potentially confound the study results. • The volunteer has uncontrolled existing major psychiatric symptoms. • The participant has known hypersensitivity to any component of the formulation or Modafinil or related compounds. • The subject has a history of drug abuse (defined as any illicit drug use) or a history of alcohol abuse within 1 year prior to the first visit or is unwilling to agree to abstain from alcohol from 24 hours prior to each test day and/or drugs throughout the study. • The participant has any sensory or motor deficits which could reasonably be expected to affect test performance. • Other exclusion criteria are smoking, excessive drinking (>20 glasses of alcohol-containing beverages a week), use of medication. • For females, exclusion criteria are taking the birth control pill and being pregnant.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The main study parameters are behavioral data from economic decision-making paradigms. In particular, elicited parameters describing preferences over risk, time, and losses.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Social preferences, trust, and reciprocity are secondary parameters, as well as cognitive performance on our control tasks.

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)