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Brain training for eating disorders: a new hope?

NCT ID NCT03808467

Symptom relief Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study tests a type of therapy called cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) for women with eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder. CRT aims to improve thinking skills such as flexibility, planning, and impulse control, which are often affected in these conditions. One hundred women who are already in treatment and have certain thinking difficulties will receive nine weekly CRT sessions. Researchers will measure changes in thinking, eating disorder symptoms, and quality of life.

What this could mean

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Active substance
cognitive remediation therapy (CRT)
What this could lead to
If it works, this could provide an additional therapy to help people with eating disorders think more flexibly and improve their symptoms.
What could go wrong
This is a relatively small, early-stage trial. The therapy may not show significant benefits, and results may not apply to all eating disorder patients.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

About 100 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Mar 2019

Expected to finish

Jul 2026

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

16 to 36 years

Sex

Female participants only

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Inclusion Criteria: * Being in in-patient-, day- or out-patient treatment for an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or OSFED) * Displaying cognitive difficulties (score ≤ -1 standard deviation) on: 1. the Inhibit, Shift, Plan/ Organize and/ or Global Executive Composite indexes of the self-report measure the BRIEF-A (reversed) 2. the Total errors, Perseverative Responses, Perseverative Errors and/ or Learning to learn from the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and/ or on the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) Copy condition or Q-score and/ or on condition 3 and 4 on the Color-word Interference Test from (D-KEFS) * Being able to understand and speak Norwegian * Be willing to provide written informed consent * Accepting random allocation to the two arms of the study Exclusion Criteria: * A history of congenital or acquired brain injury (except concussions) * Active substance abuse * Psychosis * Intelligence quotient (IQ) less than 70

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

anorexia nervosa binge eating disorder Binge-Eating Disorder bulimia nervosa eating disorder Feeding and Eating Disorders

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Anorexia nervosa Binge-eating disorder Bulimia nervosa Feeding and eating disorders

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    Trondheim, N-7491, Norway

  • Levanger Hospital, Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust

    Levanger, N-T, Norway

  • St Olavs Hospital HF

    Trondheim, Norway

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