This study is being conducted to investigate gut-brain communication in individuals with functional dyspepsia and anorexia nervosa. The hope is that what the investigators learn from this study will improve the understanding the conditions better to improve treatments.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
150
Pineapple pudding snack, with pre- and post-snack fMRI
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
RECRUITINGVisual interoception task
The study team will be investigating brain activity and connectivity during an interoception task. This will be measured via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which is able to measure blood flow to regions of the brain.
Time frame: Day 1, visit 1, 30-minute scan and visit 2 (within approximately two weeks of day 1), 30-minute scan
Resting state connectivity
Change in brain activity during rest pre and post prandially using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Time frame: Visit 2 (second visit, within approximately 2 weeks of day 1 of the study), 60 minute scan.
Gastric peristaltic velocity
MRI-derived gastric motility outcome
Time frame: 30 minutes (only in Visit 2, within approximately two weeks of Visit 1)
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