SENSing Inner BodiLy State: Understanding the Role of Interoception in obEsity

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Conditions studied: Obesity, Body Representation

In brief

Successfully perceiving the flow of interoceptive cues and integrating them with exteroceptive information are fundamental aspects of countering the body's inherent instability and guaranteeing homeostatic regulation. This process deeply affects cognitive/emotional functioning and general health. Recently, it has been suggested that an important signature underpinning obesity might be an interoceptive dysfunction in perceiving internal body signals and/or integrating them with information from the external environment. There is evidence that interoceptive deficits correlate with Body Mass Index (BMI), but it is still largely unclear how different measures and facets of interoception are related to high BMI and eating behaviour. Within this framework, it is mandatory to understand the role of interoception in obesity at perceptual, cognitive, and emotional levels. One open issue regards the relationships between interoceptive signals and the reactivity to external food cues.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06855251

Run by

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

People needed

32

Starts

2024-04-01

Expected to finish

2026-03-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Right-handed individuals diagnosed with obesity
• In rehabilitative treatment at the Istituto Auxologico

You may not qualify if…

• Concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders

Where it is running

• IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Ospedale San Giuseppe — Piancavallo, VCO, Italy (enrolling)

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