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The Sense of Small and Inhibition in Obesity (Smell_OB)

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Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Obesity

Treatments

Behavioral: Experimental Task

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this research is to verify whether inhibitory control ability is different between a group of individuals with obesity and a group of individuals with normal weight in the presence of olfactory stimuli, different for valence, edibility (food versus no-food), and caloric density (high-calorie vs low-calorie content) of foods associated with odours.

Enrollment

25 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 55 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Right-handed
  • diagnosis of obesity (i.e., 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

25 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases
Description:
Right-handed Individuals diagnosed with obesity will be recruited at the beginning of a rehabilitative treatment at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Giuseppe Hospital (Italy).
Treatment:
Behavioral: Experimental Task
Controls
Description:
Age-matched, right-handed, individuals with a healthy weight recruited outside the hospital through personal contacts of the researchers and word-of-mouth
Treatment:
Behavioral: Experimental Task

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Federica Scarpina, PhD

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