Trials / Unknown
UnknownNCT03554694
Gut-brain Axis, Brain Function, and Behaviour.
Does Stimulating Friendly Gut Bacteria Improve Brain Function and Behaviour?
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 50 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The aim is to test if dietary supplementation with prebiotics reduces measures of anxiety in healthy human participants with high self-reported levels of anxiety. Study will test for an effect on behavioural, neuroendocrine and brain imaging markers of anxiety.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Prebiotics | Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) (prebiotics) will be consumed by the participants for 4-6 weeks |
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Maltodextrin (placebo) | Maltodextrin (placebo) will be consumed by the participants for 4-6 weeks |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-05-06
- Primary completion
- 2019-12-01
- Completion
- 2019-12-01
- First posted
- 2018-06-13
- Last updated
- 2018-06-13
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03554694. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.