Working Memory Training for Substance Dependent Individuals

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

180

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 31, 2012

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2014

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2014

Conditions
Substance DependencyAddictionAnxietyDepression
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Working memory training

The working memory training started the day after the pre-test and included 24 sessions of 25 minutes each. Participants trained, under supervision of an experimenter, on weekdays in the clinic. The training consisted of two tasks: the Symmetry Span and the N-back Task. Participants in the experimental group executed versions of these task that adapt to their working memory capacity, to train their working memory optimally.

BEHAVIORAL

Placebo training

The working memory training started the day after the pre-test and included 24 sessions of 25 minutes each. Participants trained, under supervision of an experimenter, on weekdays in the clinic. The training consisted of two tasks: the Symmetry Span and the N-back Task. Participants in the placebo group executed easy versions of these task that did not adapt to their level, to prevent training.

Trial Locations (1)

3084 LD

Bouman Clinic, Rotterdam

Sponsors
All Listed Sponsors
lead

Erasmus Medical Center

OTHER