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Plasma Oxytocin Changes in Response to Music Modified by Sonic Augmentation Technology

An interventional study of sonic augmentation technology in Sonic Augmentation Technology, sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. Recruiting at 1 site in Switzerland. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-02-13.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Aug 2026, 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jan 2026; still recruiting 10 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
22
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The investigator aim to investigate wheather music modified by sonic augmentation technology can produce increasing oxytocin levels with minimal to no side effects in a highly standardized setting

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Conditions studied

  • Sonic Augmentation Technology

Keywords

  • Arginine Vasopressin Deficiency
  • oxytocin
  • diabetes insipidus
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In context

Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic

27 studies on the registry are indexed under Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic; 12 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 22 is below the median of 42 across 23 interventional studies indexed under Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland is the lead sponsor of 990 studies on the registry; 189 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Eligibility criteria

Part 1:

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adult healthy controls
  • No medication, except hormonal

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participation in a trial with drugs within 30 days
  • Illicit substance use (except for cannabis) more than 10 times in lifetime or any time within the previous two months
  • Consumption of alcoholic beverages >15 drinks/week
  • Tobacco smoking >10 cigarettes/day
  • Current or previous major psychiatric disorder (e.g., major depression, schizophrenia spectrum disorder)
  • Psychotic disorder in first-degree relatives
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Part 2:

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Confirmed diagnosis of AVP-Deficiency
  • Age ≥ 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participation in a trial with investigational drugs within 30 days
  • Illicit substance use (except for cannabis) more than 10 times in lifetime or any time within the previous two months
  • Consumption of alcoholic beverages >15 drinks/week
  • Tobacco smoking >10 cigarettes/day
  • Current or previous major psychiatric disorder (e.g., major depression, schizophrenia spectrum disorder)
  • Psychotic disorder in first-degree relatives
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
22 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Sonic augmentation technology (SAT) - placebo music

    Participants will listen to music enhanced with SAT in their first study visit. After a washout-phase of at least 20 hours they will come to a second study visit and they will listen to placebo music

    Other: sonic augmentation technology

  • Experimental
    placebo music- sonic augmentation technology (SAT) music

    Participants will listen to placebo in their first study visit. After a washout-phase of at least 20 hours they will come to a second study visit and they will listen to music enhanced with SAT

    Other: sonic augmentation technology

  • Experimental
    Sonic augmentation technology (SAT) in patients

    Patients have one study visit listening to SAT

    Other: sonic augmentation technology

Interventions

  • Othersonic augmentation technology

    Participants/ patients listen to music enhanced with sonic aumentation technology

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in oxytocin levels in healthy adults after listening to SAT enhanced music vs. placebo music

    Oxytocin release in response to music enhanced with SAT in healthy participants compared to oxytocin release in response to placebo stimulation in healthy participants

    Time frame: up to 30 min

  2. Change in oxytocin levels in patients with AVP-deficiency after listening to SAT enhanced music

    baseline is defined as 100% of the initial value, in patients with AVP-Deficiency. Any changes will be expressed as a percentage relative to this baseline. Maximum oxytocin level observed between baseline and 30 minutes will be determined.

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

Secondary outcomes

  1. Area under the concentration time curve in plasma oxytocin

    will be assessed for music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  2. Peak change in plasma oxytocin

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  3. Time course of plasma oxytocin levels

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  4. Time course of plasma copeptin

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  5. Time course of plasma cortisol

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  6. Time course of plasma neurophysin-1

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  7. Time course of other pituitary hormones/biomarkers

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  8. Subjective/emotional effects assessed on numeric rating scale (NRS)

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 30 min after listening to SAT. NRS will be presented as a range from 0 to 10 marked with "not at all" on the left and "extremely" on the right. The following NAS will be used: "any effect", "good effect", "bad effect", "liking", "high", "happy", "fear", "stimulated", "feeling close to others", "concentration", "thinking", "open", "trust", "want to be with other people", "loss of sense of time", and "the boundaries between myself and my surroundings seemed to blur".

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  9. Anxiety level using State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI - State)

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency. Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 35 min after listening to SAT. Based on responses to 20 items, with scores ranging from 1 ("almost never") to 4 ("almost always"), a total score is calculated. The total trait score (STAI-T) ranges from 20 to 80, with higher scores indicating more pronounced anxiety and scores.

    Time frame: up to 35 minutes

  10. Frequency of specific body stress reactions using the Body Perception Questionnaire Short Form (BPQ-SF)

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 50 min after listening to SAT. The BPQ-SF will be used to assess the frequency of specific body stress reactions in organs that are innervated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This study uses the Short Form (SF), totaling 46 items ranked from 1 (Never) to 5 (Always) to measure the frequency of specific body stress reactions. Though each unique part of the body may have its own reason for activation, the parts are linked by the ANS, a brain-body network that responds to everyday stress. Combined scores from organs throughout the body provide a measure of autonomic stress response patterns.

    Time frame: up to 50 minutes

  11. Recognition of emotions and body expressions in the EmBody/EmFace task

    will be assessed music enhanced with SAT compared to placebo music in healthy adults and for music enhanced with SAT in patients with AVP-Deficiency Baseline (before lisening to SAT) to 35 min after listening to SAT. The EmBody and EmFace subtasks comprise each of 42 stimuli showing body or facial expressions of angry, happy, or neutral affect (14 clips per emotion, half in front view and half in half-profile side view from the left). Stimuli last 1.5 seconds at 24 frames per second and are geometrically and optically standardized to prevent biases induced by ethnic cues (e.g., hair or skin tone) or clothing. Item order is pseudorandom to prevent sequence effects and was determined using the following constraints: the same emotion is shown no more than twice in a row; the same view per emotion is not shown consecutively (i.e., no angry-front, angry-front).

    Time frame: up to 35 minutes

  12. Assessment of blood pressure

    safety assessment of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Safety outcomes will be summarized using descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: up to 40 minutes

  13. Assessment of heart rate

    Saftey assessment of heart rate. Safety outcomes will be summarized using descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: up to 40 minutes

  14. Assessment of body temperature

    Safety assessment of body temperature. Safety outcomes will be summarized using descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: up to 40 minutes

  15. Assessment of plasma potassium

    Safety assessment of plasma potassium. Safety outcomes will be summarized using descriptive statistics

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

  16. Assessment of plasma sodium

    Safety assessment of plasma sodium. Safety outcomes will be summarized using descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: up to 30 minutes

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jan 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2026, 7 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 28, 2025
First posted
Dec 10, 2025
StartActual
Jan 9, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Aug 2026
CompletionEst.
Aug 2026
Last update
Feb 13, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 13, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07276152
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 10, 2025
Start date
Jan 9, 2026
Primary completion
Aug 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 13, 2026

Study contacts

Mirjam Christ-Crain, Prof.
Contact
Mirjam.Christ-Crain@usb.ch
+41 61 265 25 25
Mirjam Christ-Crain, Prof.
principal investigator · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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