Neuroeconomic Approach of Food Nutritionnal Assesment

Healthy Volunteer Clinical Trial

— NeuroFood  

Official title:

Neural Networks of Decision Making Processes Triggered by Food Labels

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02841410
• Other study ID #: 38RC14.322
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 5, 2016
• Last updated: July 19, 2016
• Start date: January 2015
• Est. completion date: January 2015

Study information

• Verified date: July 2016
• Source: University Hospital, Grenoble
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This fMRI study evaluated the cognitive mechanisms and the cerebral substrate of decision making when evaluating the healthiness of food products with nutritional information displayed either with a Traffic Light system, a colored nutritional label, and a Guideline Daily Amount system, a numeric label.

Description:

The investigators postulated that Traffic Light label would recruit emotion processes and activation of subjacent cerebral networks.

On the contrary, the nutritional information presented in a Guideline Daily Amount label, would recruit, due to its numeric format and higher complexity, supplementary cognitive processes and activation of related brain regions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: January 2015
• Est. primary completion date: January 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• signed informed consent

• medical exam completed before participation in reserach

• to be insured under the social security system

• to be an adult between 18 and 50 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• counter-argument to magnetic field exposure

• neurological or psychiatric disorder including eating disorders

• had

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Volunteer

Intervention

Other:
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Grenoble

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Evaluation of cerebral areas's activation	MRI	About two hours	No