Clinical trialNCT04420767UnknownInterventional

The Effect of Brain Stimulation (tDCS) in Food Cravings Control in Overweight/Obese Women

SponsorUniversity of California, Los AngelesEnrollment30Obesity

View the registry record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This study is a randomized clinical trial to test the effect of a type of non-invasive brain stimulation on the response to a behavioral intervention designed to enhance cognitive control over food cravings in obese and overweight women. The brain stimulation is called transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). All eligible participants will engage in a behavioral intervention known to enhance control over food cravings and will be randomly assigned to receive either tDCS or sham stimulation to the prefrontal cortex of the brain.

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Claudia P Sanmiguel, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
clinicaltrials.gov ↗

A profile link is shown only when the registered name resolves to a person record with a confident, namesake-checked match; ambiguous names stay unlinked.

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

University of California
Los Angeles, California, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

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

Start: 4 Jan 2017
Primary completion: 31 May 2021
Completion: 31 Dec 2021
Last update posted: 9 Jun 2020
Registered enrollment: 30
Registry id: NCT04420767

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

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.