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Comparing Neural Responses to Food Images in EDNOS Patients and Healthy Controls Using fMRI

NCT01882023 · Status: SUSPENDED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2026-05-06

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Summary

Currently, there is not a robust, testable neural model available that sufficiently explains the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN) a severe, often fatal, adolescent-onset eating disorder. Using state of the art neuroimaging and neuropsychological techniques, our objective is to identify neural mechanisms in the adolescent brain underlying AN. This is of high clinical relevance in as much as it will provide a robust platform for a diagnostic battery so that physicians can identify those who are prone to develop AN at a very early stage of life.

The aim of this research plan is: 1) To develop knowledge of cognitive dysfunction in adolescents who have recently been diagnosed with AN, with a battery of cognitive tests during a series of clinical visits. 2) To provide a scientific basis for our knowledge about how the brain of an adolescent with an eating disorder differs from that of a healthy adolescent, by conducting functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging on adolescent females with AN.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Uppsala University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christina Zhukovsky, MMed · Uppsala University

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2030-12-31
Completion
2031-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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