NCT05768659Completed
Fear Conditioning Paradigm in Obesity
Implicit Reactions to Threats in Individuals With Obesity: Primary Evidence From Fear Conditioning Paradigm
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 27 Aug 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Fear processing in obesity and specifically the ability to i) learn and remember threatening stimuli, and ii) implicitly (i.e., unconsciously) and explicitly (consciously) discriminate them from neutral ones, will be investigated in affected individuals through the fear-conditioning paradigm.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 48 (actual)
- First submitted
- 22 Feb 2023
- Start date
- Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05768659
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 48
- From Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, Jan 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders.
Who the study is looking for
- Right-handed
- diagnosis of obesity (the level of body mass index - BMI - higher or equal to 30).
Age in the registry: 20 years to 50 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Ospedale San Giuseppe Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Piancavallo | Italy | Unknown status |
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