Childhood Body Composition and Brain Structure and Function

Completed

Conditions studied: Healthy

In brief

The specific aim of this research project is to use MRI methods to evaluate and compare brain structure and function in normal weight and obese children age 8-10 years.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01822054

Run by

Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

People needed

27

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2023-12-20

Who can join

Age: 8 and older, up to 10. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Healthy normal weight or obese children
• Parental report of full-term gestation
• Parental report of birth weight between 5th-95th percentiles
• Parental report of breastfeeding or cow's milk formula fed during infancy
• Right hand dominance

You may not qualify if…

• Maternal diabetes
• Maternal alcohol, tobacco or drug use during pregnancy
• Chronic sleep disorder
• History of psychological or psychiatric diagnosis
• History of neurological impairment or injury
• Surgical implant or other foreign object in the body which may be a MRI safety concern
• Dental work which may cause artifacts in MRI
• Claustrophobia
• High likelihood of inability to tolerate loud noise from the MRI scanner

Where it is running

• Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

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