Nutrition and Cognitive Function in Preadolescents

Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Healthy Children

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02636998

204071

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to evaluate cognitive function in preadolescents who have different body mass indexes.

Full description

The investigators plan to document differences between normal weight and obese preadolescents on psychological and neurocognitive measures of executive function controlling for factors known to influence brain function and behavior not considered in previous studies.

Enrollment

116 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

9 to 11 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Normal weight (BMI: <85th percentile) or obese (BMI: >95th percentile)
Right hand dominance
Report eating breakfast at least 4 days/week
Able to hear at least 20 dB stimulus
Visual acuity must be at least 20/40
Arithmetic Computation Task
Biological mother available to attend the enrollment study visit

Exclusion criteria

Full Scale IQ <80
Children taking medications or having chronic illnesses/disorders that may independently affect study outcome measures (as determined by the PI)