Study design
LUDWIG
We performed a randomized controlled study in healthy female volunteers who were assigned to undergo either a stress or a control task and, after completion, were treated with either a placebo treatment or remained untreated. A small active treatment group (n = 12) was also included to permit blinded administration of placebo treatment (data not analyzed). The study was conducted at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich in accordance with all relevant ethical guidelines and regulations for human participants. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty at LMU Munich (# 401–13) and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was registered at the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS; 08/12/2022, DRKS00027033).