Craving Network Neurofeedback

Description

This project tests whether individuals with overweight or obesity and high craving can learn to change their brain response to food cues using neurofeedback, to impact their craving and eating behavior.

Conditions

Overweight or Obesity

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Study Details

Study overview

This project tests whether individuals with overweight or obesity and high craving can learn to change their brain response to food cues using neurofeedback, to impact their craving and eating behavior.

Connectome-based Neurofeedback of the Craving Network to Reduce Food Cue Reactivity

Craving Network Neurofeedback

Condition
Overweight or Obesity
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

New Haven

Yale MRRC Anlyan Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06519

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Ages 18 to 60 years
  • * Body mass index \>25 kg/m2
  • * \>2.37 Food Craving Inventory score
  • * Use of anti-obesity medications
  • * Weight-reduced state defined as \>10% weight reduction in the past 6 months.
  • * Nicotine use
  • * Current diagnosis of neurological or psychiatric disorder
  • * Obesity-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes
  • * Contraindications to MRI
  • * Baseline scanning with motion \>0.15mm frame to frame displacement.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 60 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Yale University,

Kathleen A Garrison, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Yale University

Study Record Dates

2027-03-31