Clinical trials: Food Cravings
Healthy Participants
Physiological and Neurocognitive Responses to Multisensory Food Cues in VR
This study aims to investigate how food cravings change when visual food cues are enriched with sound, smell, and interactive experiences in a virtual reality (VR) environment.
- Trial name
- NCT07320209
- Testing
- Real food, Virtual Reality Food
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Marmara University
Substance Use Disorders, Eating Disorders
Substance Use and Eating Disorders : Food Craving and Addiction Transfer
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Eating Disorders (ED) are severe and persistent disturbances that are associated with significant harm.
- Trial name
- SUED (NCT05315635)
- Testing
- Questionnaire
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 294 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Charles Perrens, Bordeaux
GLP - 1
Exploring the Influence of Glucagon-like Peptide -1 (GLP-1) Medications on Food Cravings, Food Selection, and Food Intake Following Exposure to Food Advertisements
The purpose of this randomized control trial is to compare how food cravings, food selection, and food consumption change in response to frequent food advertisements compared to non-food advertisements in adults taking GLP-1…
- Trial name
- NCT07505134
- Testing
- Food advertisements, Tech advertisements
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder
Is Craving a Central Criterion for Diagnosing a Behavioral Addiction?
This study is a cross-sectional observational study designed to evaluate the diagnostic criteria for behavioral addictions (gambling, online video game disorder, screen addiction, food addiction, and pathological use of sex…
- Conditions
- Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder, Gambling, Technology Addiction
- Trial name
- CRIBA (NCT07854912)
- Testing
- Questionnaires, Telephone interview
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Bordeaux
Obesity, Craving
Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) for Food Craving in Obese Individuals.
Background: Obesity is one of the most important diseases around the globe; with a continuous increase and public health concern. Current treatments present some limitations.
- Trial name
- taVNS (NCT03217929)
- Testing
- Active-taVNS
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 54 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of São Paulo
Food Addiction, Withdrawal
The Biobehavioral Impact of Diet Quality on Affect and Craving
The current study experimentally investigates whether reducing highly processed (HP) foods (defined in this study as foods high in added sugars) leads to, psychological and / or behavioral indicators of withdrawal.
- Trial name
- NCT04105712
- Testing
- Dietary Change (low in highly processed foods)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Obesity, Overweight
The Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Chemosensory Function and Ingestive Behavior
The goal of this study is to explore whether of GLP-1 receptor agonist use is associated with differences in taste, smell, food preferences, appetite, food cravings, and responses to food cues in adults.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Overweight, Taste Perception, Olfaction
- Trial name
- NCT07611201
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Sleep Deprivation
Olfactory Contributions to Sleep-dependent Food Craving
This within-subject experiment uses one night of acute sleep restriction (4h) vs normal sleep (8h) to study state-dependent changes in olfactory processing.
- Trial name
- SDFC (NCT04179838)
- Testing
- Sleep-Deprived, Non-Sleep Deprived
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Obesity, Food Craving
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Obesity
Obesity is a metabolic disease that has reached epidemic proportions. Insofar no long-term effective drug treatment was developed for obesity.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Food Craving, Appetite and General Nutritional Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT03009695
- Testing
- High frequency repetitive dTMS, Low frequency repetitive dTMS
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Ospedale San Donato
Eating Behavior
Effect of tDCS Montage on Measures of Appetite
The aim is to validate a new sham (control) method for use in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that is less discernible to participants from the real condition.
- Trial name
- NCT03396549
- Testing
- real tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Overweight and Obese Adults, BMI >= 23
Dose Response of Leucine on Muscle Maintenance During Weight Loss
The objective of this research is to determine if there is dose response of leucine on muscle maintenance during 4-week of alternate-day fasting (ADF) on blood parameters, body composition, mood and parameters related to appetite…
- Trial name
- NCT07583875
- Testing
- leucine
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 92 people
- Sponsor
- Nanyang Technological University
Healthy Adults
Safety and Tolerance of a Novel Three-Strain Probiotic in Healthy Adults
This Phase I \& II study evaluates the safety and tolerability of 8 weeks of daily supplementation with high-dose versus standard-dose of a novel three-strain probiotic.
- Trial name
- NCT07566884
- Testing
- Three-Strain Probiotic
- Where
- Ireland
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pendulum Therapeutics
Schizophrenia, Obesity
Effects of Antipsychotics on Eating and Food Craving in People With Schizophrenia
Background: Although second-generation antipsychotic medications have fewer serious side effects and complications than first-generation ones, they are strongly associated with weight gain for reasons that are as yet unknown.
- Trial name
- NCT01222793
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Overweight or Obesity
Craving Network Neurofeedback
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.
- Trial name
- NCT06426693
- Testing
- Experimental feedback, Control feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Obesity
Learning Theory to Improve Obesity Treatment
The purpose of this study is to optimize an obesity treatment program targeting overweight 8-12 year old children using "Cue Exposure Training".
- Trial name
- iROC (NCT01708785)
- Testing
- Single food Cue Exposure Treatment, Multiple food Cue Exposure Treatment, Partial Reinforcement - Enhanced Cue Exposure Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 230 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Food Cravings
EXOMIND (BTL-699) for the Reduction of Food Cravings
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate if the treatment with BTL-699 device is able to temporarily reduce food cravings in adults above the age of 22 years.
- Trial name
- NCT06889298
- Testing
- Treatment with BTL-699
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- BTL Industries Ltd.
Food Cravings, rTMS
The Effectiveness of rTMS on Improving Food Craving and Weight Control in Adults Without Serious Mental Illness
Department of Psychiatry | Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong The Effectiveness of rTMS on Improving Food Cravings and Weight Control in Adults without Serious Mental Illness Introduction The…
- Trial name
- NCT07106398
- Testing
- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Obesity, Craving
Neurofeedback Based on Near-infrared Spectroscopy as a Therapy for Food Addiction in Obese Subjects.
The hypothesis is that the increase in dlPFC brain activity via near-infrared spectroscopy-based Neurofeedback (fNIRS-based NF) training based on near-infrared spectroscopy would allow an improvement of the eating behavior, thus…
- Trial name
- CaDOb (NCT05277714)
- Testing
- NF
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Rennes University Hospital
Pregnancy Weight Gain, Eating Disorders
A Single Session Self-guided Acceptance-based Digital Intervention Targeting Food Cravings in Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a time of heightened risk for disordered eating behaviors, which have been linked to adverse health outcomes in gestation, delivery, and the postpartum.
- Conditions
- Pregnancy Weight Gain, Eating Disorders, Perinatal Problems, Binge Eating
- Trial name
- NCT06129461
- Testing
- Single-session acceptance-based online workshop targeting food cravings as predictors of loss of control and binge eating in pregnancy
- Volunteers
- 130 people
- Sponsor
- University at Albany
Obesity
The Effect of Brain Stimulation (tDCS) in Food Cravings Control in Overweight/Obese Women
This study is a randomized clinical trial to test the effect of a type of non-invasive brain stimulation on the response to a behavioral intervention designed to enhance cognitive control over food cravings in obese and…
- Trial name
- NCT04420767
- Testing
- tDCS, Go-No GO task
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles