Effects of Games on Memory Reconsolidation and Trauma Symptoms

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

120

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 23, 2024

Primary Completion Date

October 31, 2024

Study Completion Date

August 31, 2025

Conditions
Posttraumatic Stress DisorderTrauma
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Visuospatial Task (VST)

Participants randomized to the VST condition will play a visuospatial game (i.e., Tetris). Participants will be given two minutes to practice Tetris and then will be instructed to play for 15 minutes without stopping.

BEHAVIORAL

Word Association Task (WAT)

Participants randomized to the WAT condition will play a word association game. Research staff members will read from a list of 300 words, not associated with trauma, to the participant. The participant will verbally respond to each word out loud with the first word that comes to their mind. This word association task will continue for 15 minutes or until all 300 words are read, whichever occurs first.

Trial Locations (1)

78712

RECRUITING

The Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Texas at Austin

OTHER