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Food Intake and the Adolescent Brain

NCT04208256 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 63

Last updated 2025-06-08

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Summary

The brain plays an integral role in how and what people eat. However, the brain's contribution to overeating is not well understood during sensitive developmental periods such as adolescence, when excessive weight gain and obesity prevalence are a significant concern.The proposed study will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine how the brain's response to excess energy is related to overeating in adolescents with and without obesity.

Conditions

  • Feeding Behavior
  • Brain
  • Adolescent

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Energy Stimulus

Energy stimulus (energy surplus v. energy neutral) will be randomly assigned at the first brain imaging visit. At the second brain imaging visit, the participant will receive the alternate stimulus from what they received at the first brain imaging visit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-30
Primary Completion
2024-09-30
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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