NCT02592239

Hedonic Perception and Brain Activity Response to Meal

Hedonic Perception and Brain Activity Response to Meal in Health and Functional Dyspepsia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between brain activity and the perception of subjective hedonic sensations in response to a meal using functional MRI.

Detailed description

Functional MRI brain imaging will be performed in patients with functional dyspepsia and healthy controls in basal conditions and after a palatable test meal. During the study, the cognitive response and the hedonic dimension will be measured using 10 score scales.

Conditions

• Dyspepsia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Functional brain MRI	Functional brain MRI before and after test meal ingestion
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	A warm ham and cheese sandwich and a 200 ml fruit juice

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-30
• First posted: 2015-10-30
• Last updated: 2017-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain