Clinical trials: sponsored by Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity, Sarcopenic Obesity
Effects of Obesity on Physical Abilities and Daily Living Activities in Elderly Adults
Obesity is a significant health problem whose prevalence has tripled worldwide in the last fifty years, also involving older people.
- Trial name
- CAPFISOBEANZ (NCT07614464)
- Testing
- Fitness tests and questionnaires
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Anorexia Nervosa
Posture and Spinal Mobility in Anorexia Nervosa
The primary objective of the study is to compare the results of the postural and mobility analysis obtained with the use of the Idiag M360 instrument in adult women with anorexia nervosa and in a control group represented by…
- Trial name
- SPINALAN (NCT06800924)
- Testing
- Postural and mobility analysis
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Anorexia Nervosa
Orexin Gene in Anorexia Nervosa
The objectives of this study will be to determine the methylation of the promoter of the Orexin A (OX-A) and B (OX-B) genes in young women (> 18 years) with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), compared with a control group; and to evaluate…
- Trial name
- ORESSANNE (NCT06800898)
- Testing
- Blood samples and Questionnaires
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
LONgitudinal and Integrated Evaluation of Biomarkers in reLation to phenotYpe in ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons, leading to paralysis and death.
- Trial name
- LONELYALS (NCT07312240)
- Testing
- Lumbar Puncture for analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Deep Phenotyping, Routine blood chemistry analysis and genetic analysis
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Cardiovascular Diseases, Lifestyle
Relationship Between Lifestyle Indicators and Cardiovascular Clinical Parameters
The goal of the study is to build a Register accruing data derived from the compilation of the questionnaire about LifeStyle for a population both of adults and of young boys and girls.
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular Diseases, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Healthy, Physical Inactivity
- Trial name
- RICH (NCT06283069)
- Testing
- compilation of a questionnaire about LifeStyle
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity, Morbid Obesity
Long Term Effect of Very-low-calories Ketogenic Diet on Weight Control and Cardiovascular Brisk Factors (KETOHEART)
The growing obesity pandemic has a major impact on global cardiovascular (CVD)-related morbidity and premature mortality, severely compromising the quality of life of those affected and significantly increasing costs for the…
- Trial name
- KETOHEART (NCT05781269)
- Testing
- VLCKD, r-MedDiet
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Cognitive Impairment, Dementia
Advances in Neuropsychological Diagnostics
This project is aimed at advancing neuropsychological diagnostics, enriching and modernizing the panorama of both clinical and forensic psychometric testing.
- Conditions
- Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Psychiatric Disorder
- Trial name
- NeuroPsiD (NCT05794061)
- Testing
- Neuropsychological instruments
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity
Auditory Sensory Attenuation in Obesity
The goal of this observational cross-sectional study is to test the sensory attenuation effect with auditory stimuli comparing women with obesity and healthy-weight women.
- Trial name
- Ud_SA_OB (NCT06298539)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 37 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Anorexia Nervosa
Auditory Sensory Attenuation in Anorexia Nervosa
The goal of this observational cross-sectional study is to test the sensory attenuation effect with auditory stimuli comparing women affected by anorexia nervosa and healthy-weight women.
- Trial name
- UdSA_AN (NCT06298526)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Resistance, Thyroid Hormone
Understanding, Diagnosis and Monitoring of Thyroid Hormone Action Defects
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the neurological and cardiological phenotype of patients with resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) syndromes beta and alpha (RTHß and RTHa) due to dominant negative variants…
- Trial name
- ADAM-THAD (NCT06307990)
- Testing
- NGS sequencing, serological tests
- Where
- 2 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
COVID-19 Pandemic, Endocrine System Diseases
Hormonal Contributors to COVID-19 Infection (COV-ENDO)
The goal of this observational study is to measure the changes in the parameters of endocrine function and tissue sensitivity to hormones induced by SARs-CoV-2 infection.
- Trial name
- COV-ENDO (NCT05749770)
- Testing
- blood testing
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 220 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Anorexia Nervosa
Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa
Altered emotional processing is reported in Anorexia Nervosa. However, this capability is generally measured through explicit measures, like self-report questionnaires and facial emotion recognition tasks.
- Trial name
- FER_AN (NCT06299293)
- Testing
- Facial Emotion Recognition Test
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Anorexia Nervosa
Rubber Hand Illusion in Anorexia Nervosa
The present research project aims to verify a possible difference in the recalibration of the real hand position (i.e. proprioceptive drift) in relation to the dimensions of the plastic hand in the Rubber Hand Illusion, among a…
- Trial name
- RHI_size_AN (NCT06296329)
- Testing
- Rubber Hand Illusion
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Counterfactual Thinking and Decision-making in OSA Syndrome
The aim of this research is to verify the ability of counterfactual thinking about medical decisions in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome when compared with healthy individuals
- Trial name
- CT_OSAS (NCT05768633)
- Testing
- Counterfactual Inference Test
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity
Fear Conditioning Paradigm in Obesity
Fear processing in obesity and specifically the ability to i) learn and remember threatening stimuli, and ii) implicitly (i.e., unconsciously) and explicitly (consciously) discriminate them from neutral ones, will be investigated…
- Trial name
- GenAllertOB (NCT05768659)
- Testing
- Fear Conditioning
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity
Placebo Effect About Fatigue in Obesity
Fatigue is a central symptom of obesity: it significantly impacts daily functioning, psychological well-being, compliance with physical therapy, and quality of life.
- Trial name
- POF (NCT06299254)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity
The Sense of Small and Inhibition in Obesity
The aim of this research is to verify whether inhibitory control ability is different between a group of individuals with obesity and a group of individuals with normal weight in the presence of olfactory stimuli, different for…
- Trial name
- Smell_OB (NCT05768672)
- Testing
- Experimental Task
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity, Body Representation
SENSing Inner BodiLy State: Understanding the Role of Interoception in obEsity
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.
- Trial name
- SENSIBLE (NCT06855251)
- Testing
- The crossmodal dual-task
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity
The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity
The aim of the present research is to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with obesity and healthy women, while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of…
- Trial name
- AffTouch_OB (NCT05768685)
- Testing
- Affective touch paradigm
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Obesity, Childhood, Obesity, Adolescent
Reading Ability in Childhood Obesity
There is some evidence about the negative impact of overweight and obesity on reading ability, with negative consequences on quality of life and school success.
- Trial name
- Lettura_evOB (NCT06295406)
- Testing
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano