Pilot Study of Hippocampal Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM)

Completed

Conditions studied: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

In brief

This study is an expansion of a previous study done to determine how thinking skills relate to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and certain regions of the brain in children and adolescents. In this study, the investigators are testing thinking skills and measuring brain activity in adolescents with and without type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00918801

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

91

Starts

2007-04-01

Expected to finish

2016-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-11-10

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 13 - 18
• Right handed
• Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes OR normal sibling control
• If diabetic, then diagnosis for at least 2 years

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant or lactating
• Chronic disease other than well-controlled asthma, or Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
• Other current serious medical illness
• Co-morbid psychiatric illness
• Co-morbid neurological illness
• Pre-maturity at birth
• Contraindication to MRI scan
• orthodontic braces.

Where it is running

• Washington University School of Medicine — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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