Fear Conditioning Paradigm in Obesity (GenAllertOB)

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Fear Conditioning

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05768659

21X101

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Right-handed
• diagnosis of obesity (the level of body mass index - BMI - higher or equal to 30).

Exclusion criteria

• concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders.

Trial design

48 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases

Description:

Participants affected by obesity (the level of body mass index (BMI) higher or equal to 30).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fear Conditioning

Controls

Description:

Not-hospitalized participants with a healthy weight

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fear Conditioning