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Clinical trialNCT02400359Active, not recruitingPhase 4Interventional

Lorcaserin in Obesity: Identification of CNS Targets Using fMRI

SponsorBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterEnrollment40ObesityWeight Loss
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this protocol is to investigate, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the effect of treatment with lorcaserin on centers of the brain that control appetite and food intake, as well as lorcaserin's downstream metabolic effects.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

LorcaserinPlacebo
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Oct 2014
Primary completion
30 Jun 2027
Completion
30 Jun 2027
Last update posted
1 May 2026
Registered enrollment
40
Registry id
NCT02400359
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.