Comparing Neural Responses to Food Images in EDNOS Patients and Healthy Controls Using fMRI
NCT ID: NCT01882023
Last Updated: 2023-11-30
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
150 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2011-05-31
2027-12-31
Brief Summary
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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.
Detailed Description
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It is likely that the interaction between appetitive brain regions and specific prefrontal cortex (PFC) cognitions determines whether an adolescent develops anorexia nervosa. We aim to provide neuropsychological and brain imaging measures showing how a specific cognitive function is linked to early-onset disordered eating behaviour, and we will do this before and after standard clinical treatment. We suggest that such understanding could enable school nurses to use the unique paradigm we use in our fMRI study, to detect illness before it damages the child's life and becomes difficult to treat.
The study has now been increased to include genetic components to examine the genetic and epigenetic variation for genes found to be linked with eating disorders.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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CASE_CONTROL
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Study Groups
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Eating disorder
Patients currently in treatment for eating disorders.
No interventions assigned to this group
Healthy Controls
Age- and gender matched healthy controls.
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Age 13 - 18 yrs
* Right handed
* For controls: BMI within the "normal" range
* For patients: Be admitted to treatment for an eating disorder
Exclusion Criteria
* Suffering from any other illnesses
* Left handed
* Metal implants which can impact the fMRI image
* Severe claustrophobia
* Pregnancy
* Smoker
* Regular alcohol drinker
13 Years
18 Years
FEMALE
Yes
Sponsors
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Uppsala University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Christina Zhukovsky, MMed
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Uppsala University
Locations
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Röntgenavdelningen, Uppsala Academic Hospital
Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Helgi Schiöth, PH.D
Role: primary
Christina Zhukovsky
Role: backup
References
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Brooks SJ, O'Daly OG, Uher R, Schioth HB, Treasure J, Campbell IC. Subliminal food images compromise superior working memory performance in women with restricting anorexia nervosa. Conscious Cogn. 2012 Jun;21(2):751-63. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.02.006. Epub 2012 Mar 11.
Andrews SC, Hoy KE, Enticott PG, Daskalakis ZJ, Fitzgerald PB. Improving working memory: the effect of combining cognitive activity and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Brain Stimul. 2011 Apr;4(2):84-9. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.06.004. Epub 2010 Jul 11.
Brooks SJ, O'Daly OG, Uher R, Friederich HC, Giampietro V, Brammer M, Williams SC, Schioth HB, Treasure J, Campbell IC. Differential neural responses to food images in women with bulimia versus anorexia nervosa. PLoS One. 2011;6(7):e22259. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022259. Epub 2011 Jul 20.
Brooks SJ, O'Daly O, Uher R, Friederich HC, Giampietro V, Brammer M, Williams SC, Schioth HB, Treasure J, Campbell IC. Thinking about eating food activates visual cortex with reduced bilateral cerebellar activation in females with anorexia nervosa: an fMRI study. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e34000. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034000. Epub 2012 Mar 27.
Brooks SJ, Barker GJ, O'Daly OG, Brammer M, Williams SC, Benedict C, Schioth HB, Treasure J, Campbell IC. Restraint of appetite and reduced regional brain volumes in anorexia nervosa: a voxel-based morphometric study. BMC Psychiatry. 2011 Nov 17;11:179. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-179.
Van den Eynde F, Claudino AM, Mogg A, Horrell L, Stahl D, Ribeiro W, Uher R, Campbell I, Schmidt U. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces cue-induced food craving in bulimic disorders. Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Apr 15;67(8):793-5. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.023. Epub 2010 Jan 8.
Brooks SJ, Benedict C, Burgos J, Kempton MJ, Kullberg J, Nordenskjold R, Kilander L, Nylander R, Larsson EM, Johansson L, Ahlstrom H, Lind L, Schioth HB. Late-life obesity is associated with smaller global and regional gray matter volumes: a voxel-based morphometric study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Feb;37(2):230-6. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2012.13. Epub 2012 Jan 31.
Olivo G, Wiemerslage L, Swenne I, Zhukovsky C, Salonen-Ros H, Larsson EM, Gaudio S, Brooks SJ, Schioth HB. Correction: Limbic-thalamo-cortical projections and reward-related circuitry integrity affects eating behavior: A longitudinal DTI study in adolescents with restrictive eating disorders. PLoS One. 2017 Apr 20;12(4):e0176646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176646. eCollection 2017.
Olivo G, Wiemerslage L, Swenne I, Zhukowsky C, Salonen-Ros H, Larsson EM, Gaudio S, Brooks SJ, Schioth HB. Limbic-thalamo-cortical projections and reward-related circuitry integrity affects eating behavior: A longitudinal DTI study in adolescents with restrictive eating disorders. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 1;12(3):e0172129. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172129. eCollection 2017.
Olivo G, Zhou W, Sundbom M, Zhukovsky C, Hogenkamp P, Nikontovic L, Stark J, Wiemerslage L, Larsson EM, Benedict C, Schioth HB. Resting-state brain connectivity changes in obese women after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery: A longitudinal study. Sci Rep. 2017 Jul 26;7(1):6616. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06663-5.
Gaudio S, Carducci F, Piervincenzi C, Olivo G, Schioth HB. Altered thalamo-cortical and occipital-parietal- temporal-frontal white matter connections in patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging studies. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2019 Sep 1;44(5):324-339. doi: 10.1503/jpn.180121.
Olivo G, Swenne I, Zhukovsky C, Tuunainen AK, Saaid A, Salonen-Ros H, Larsson EM, Brooks SJ, Schioth HB. Preserved white matter microstructure in adolescent patients with atypical anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 2019 Feb;52(2):166-174. doi: 10.1002/eat.23012. Epub 2019 Jan 24.
Olivo G, Swenne I, Zhukovsky C, Tuunainen AK, Salonen-Ros H, Larsson EM, Gaudio S, Brooks SJ, Schioth HB. Reduced resting-state connectivity in areas involved in processing of face-related social cues in female adolescents with atypical anorexia nervosa. Transl Psychiatry. 2018 Dec 13;8(1):275. doi: 10.1038/s41398-018-0333-1.
Gaudio S, Olivo G, Beomonte Zobel B, Schioth HB. Altered cerebellar-insular-parietal-cingular subnetwork in adolescents in the earliest stages of anorexia nervosa: a network-based statistic analysis. Transl Psychiatry. 2018 Jul 6;8(1):127. doi: 10.1038/s41398-018-0173-z.
Olivo G, Solstrand Dahlberg L, Wiemerslage L, Swenne I, Zhukovsky C, Salonen-Ros H, Larsson EM, Gaudio S, Brooks SJ, Schioth HB. Atypical anorexia nervosa is not related to brain structural changes in newly diagnosed adolescent patients. Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Jan;51(1):39-45. doi: 10.1002/eat.22805. Epub 2017 Dec 7.
Other Identifiers
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anfmri40
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id