Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04184856
Binges and Neural Variability
What is Driving the Binge in Binge Eating Disorder? Variability in Brain Response to Reward and the Escalation of Consumption
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 61 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 69 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
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
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIAGNOSTIC_TEST | fMRI | (Imaging while) performing reward related tasks. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2019-12-06
- Primary completion
- 2021-05-31
- Completion
- 2021-05-31
- First posted
- 2019-12-04
- Last updated
- 2021-08-11
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04184856. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.