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Binges and Neural Variability

NCT04184856 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2021-08-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

People who suffer from binge eating disorder experience recurrent episodes of binge eating.During these episodes, they consume an unusually large amount of food in a short amount of time and experience loss of control over eating. However, why such binge eating episodes occur is still largely unknown. This makes it difficult to develop targeted treatments. In this project, the experimenters are investigating the brain mechanisms that give rise to the disorder. They hypothesize that the binge eating episodes are due to an increased variability in reward processing, which they will assess repeatedly over days. They will test this hypothesis using mathematical models based on behavioural and MRI measurements that are related to the processing of rewards.

Conditions

  • Binge-Eating Disorder

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

fMRI

(Imaging while) performing reward related tasks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital Tuebingen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nils B Kroemer, Dr · University Hospital Tuebingen

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
69 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-06
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-05-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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