Reward Emotion Learning and Ketamine Study
NCT04850911 · RELAKS · University of Oxford
What it is testing
Summary
Summary as written by the trial’s own sponsor and published on ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. It is the sponsor’s description, reproduced unedited, not an assessment by this site.
What counts as success
Primary outcome measures
Activation of the habenula during the Pavlovian conditioning task in response to the conditioned stimulus associated with pain stimuli and in response to the receipt of shock.
Measured over 24 hours after ketamine infusion
Habenula response to the absence of expected reward and the receipt of an unexpected loss (i.e. a negative prediction error signal) in both the reward maximisation and loss minimisation tasks.
Measured over 24 hours after ketamine administration
Preference for high-reward probability shapes learned after winning money (in the Wheel of Fortune draw) during the preference test.
Measured over +/- 24 hours after ketamine administration
A trial succeeds or fails on its primary outcome, declared in advance. Everything else it reports is secondary by definition.
Who can take part
Eligibility, as published
Where
1 study site
| Facility | City | Region | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oxford | Oxford | — | United Kingdom |
On the registry
Contact the trial directly
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NCT04850911 on ClinicalTrials.gov →
Last updated in the registry 2023-03-28. Registry records change; this page reflects the data build of 2026-08-25.
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