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Register: German Clinical Trials Register
Last refreshed on: 8 April 2024
Main ID:  DRKS00010230
Date of registration: 01/04/2016
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
Public title: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-arm study on the impact of Valproic acid and Pregabalin on approach/avoidance behaviour in healthy individuals
Scientific title: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-arm study on the impact of Valproic acid and Pregabalin on approach/avoidance behaviour in healthy individuals - AAAX2
Date of first enrolment: 08/06/2016
Target sample size: 90
Recruitment status: Complete
URL:  http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00010230
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized controlled study; Masking: Blinded (masking used); Control: placebo; Assignment: parallel; Study design purpose: basic science  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Switzerland
Contacts
Name: Dominik    Bach
Address:  Lenggstrasse 31, Postfach 1931 8032 Zürich Switzerland
Telephone: +41443842111
Email: dominik.bach@uzh.ch
Affiliation:  Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
Name: Dominik    Bach
Address:  Lenggstrasse 31, Postfach 1931 8032 Zürich Switzerland
Telephone: +41443842111
Email: dominik.bach@uzh.ch
Affiliation:  Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Healthy individuals between 18-40 years
Exclusion criteria: • Allergy to Valproic acid or Pregabalin or to any other ingredient in the named drugs
• Use of any drugs in the 2 weeks prior to the study with the exception of contraceptive drugs and incidental use of NSARs or paracetamol
• Women who are pregnant or breast feeding,
• Intention to become pregnant during the course of the study,
• Lack of safe contraception, defined as: Female participants of childbearing potential, not using and not willing to continue using a medically reliable method of contraception for the entire study duration, such as oral, injectable, or implantable contraceptives, or intrauterine contraceptive devices, or who are not using any other method considered sufficiently reliable by the investigator in individual cases
• Acute or chronic hepatitis, hepatic porphyria
• Other clinically significant concomitant disease states (e.g., renal failure, hepatic dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, etc.)
• Any history of psychiatric, neurological, dependence or systemic/rheumatic disease
• Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse
• Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems
• Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study,
• Previous enrolment into the current study,
• members of the study team and their family members and dependants


Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 40 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Investigate and compare the impact of Valproic acid and Pregabalin on healthy human volunteers 'anxiety-like' behaviour in a computer game.
Intervention(s)
Group 1: Single dose 400 mg Valproic acid (2-Propylpentanoic acid), oral capsules for 1 day



Group 2: Single dose 200 mg Pregabalin ((S)-3-(aminomethyl)-5-methylhexanoic acid), brand name Lyrica, oral capsules for 1 day
Group 3: Single dose placebo (mannitol), oral capsules for one day
Primary Outcome(s)
Primary outcome is the overall probability of being in the safe place in the computer game. Probability of being in the safe place will be assessed over all rounds of the experiment and analysed in a time x task x threat level factorial design. Probability of being in the safe place is a surrogate marker for passive avoidance, and was highly sensitive in distinguishing between patients with hippocampal or amygdala lesions and healthy controls, and between lorazepam and placebo, in a previous study.

Measured during the entire computer game (average behaviour in the computer game).

[NOTE: this is the primary outcome as per approved study protocol. An earlier version of the registration did not match the study protocol due to an administrative oversight, and this was corrected before study completion/drug unblinding.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary outcomes are distance from threat, distance from walls, probability of being in the threat quadrant, probability of being in the safe quadrant, rate of token collection and speed when on grid, in the computer game. All secondary outcomes will be assessed over all rounds of the experiment and analyzed in a time x task x threat level factorial design.

Measured during the entire computer game (average behaviour in the computer game).

[NOTE: these are the secondary outcomes as per approved study protocol. An earlier version of the registration did not match the study protocol due to an administrative oversight, and this was corrected before study completion/drug unblinding.]
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
University of Zurich
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 06/03/2015
Contact:
Kantonale Ethikkommission Zürich [Zürich Cantonal Ethics Committee (Kantonale Ethikkommission Zürich)]
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed: 16/09/2016
URL: http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00010230#studyResults
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