This project will examine neuronal and sensory fat perception. Our hypothesis is that subjects being either hypersensitive or hyposensitive for fat will show different brain activities. Therefore the investigators will conduct functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and fat detection threshold tests examining neuronal and sensory fat perception.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Subjects will receive yogurt with varying fat concentrations
University Clinic of Tuebingen, fMEG Center
Tübingen, Germany
Fat detection thresholds
A sensory test will be conducted to establish individual fat detection thresholds. It is expected that subjects\* brain activity is dependent on sensory fat sensitivity.
Time frame: each measurement day
Brain activity
We are interested in brain activations following the consumption of yogurt with either a high or a low fat concentration. To assess this, before as well as after fat intake brain activity will be measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We expect that brain activity will differ between the high and the low fat yogurt condition.
Time frame: pre and post meal intake
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