Comparing Neural Responses to Food Images in EDNOS Patients and Healthy Controls Using fMRI
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Uppsala University
- Where
- Sweden1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Suspended
- People taking part
- 150 people, planned
- Started
- May 2011
- Expected to end
- Dec 2031
- Type of study
- Observational, 2 groups
- Record updated
- 6 May 2026
- Why it stopped
- Our trial is currently inactive due to the unavailability of certain facilities.
Who can take part
- Age
- 13 years to 18 years
- Sex
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Females
- Age 13 - 18 yrs
- Right handed
- For controls: BMI within the "normal" range
- For patients: Be admitted to treatment for an eating disorder
Who cannot take part
- On medication
- Metal implants which can impact the fMRI image
- Suffering from any other illnesses
- Left handed
- Severe claustrophobia
- Pregnancy
- Smoker
- Regular alcohol drinker
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Currently, there is not a robust, testable neural model available that sufficiently explains the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN) a severe, often fatal, adolescent-onset eating disorder. Using state of the art neuroimaging and neuropsychological techniques, our objective is to identify neural mechanisms in the adolescent brain underlying AN. This is of high clinical relevance in as much as it will provide a robust platform for a diagnostic battery so that physicians can identify those who are prone to develop AN at a very early stage of life.
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The aim of this research plan is: 1) To develop knowledge of cognitive dysfunction in adolescents who have recently been diagnosed with AN, with a battery of cognitive tests during a series of clinical visits. 2) To provide a scientific basis for our knowledge about how the brain of an adolescent with an eating disorder differs from that of a healthy adolescent, by conducting functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging on adolescent females with AN.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Eating disorder
Patients currently in treatment for eating disorders.
- Healthy Controls
Age- and gender matched healthy controls.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Comparing Neural Responses to Explicit and Subliminal Food Images in EDNOS Patients and Healthy Controls Using fMRI
- Record updated
- 6 May 2026