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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON50783
NL-OMON50783Not yet recruitingNot Applicable

eural processing of olfactory stimuli in response to smell loss - SensoSmell

Wageningen Universiteit0 sites40 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Not Applicable
Status
Not yet recruiting
Enrollment
40

Study Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Study Design

Study Type
Observational

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
18 to 64 (—)

Inclusion Criteria

  • For patients:
  • * Labelled as hyposmic or anosmic according to a standardised olfactory test
  • * Smell loss due to a viral infection
  • * Aged between 18-65 years
  • * Have normal/ corrected to normal eyesight
  • * Willing to follow the study procedures
  • * Having given written informed consent
  • * Righthanded
  • For controls:
  • * Self-reported healthy
  • * Labelled as normosmic according to a standardised olfactory test
  • * Aged between 18-65 years
  • * Have normal/ corrected to normal eyesight
  • * Willing to follow the study procedures
  • * Having given written informed consent
  • * Matched on sex to patient
  • * Matched on age (within +/- 3 years) to patient
  • * Righthanded

Exclusion Criteria

  • * Having congenital anosmia (because olfactory networks will be different from
  • people who have been able to smell)
  • * Having suffered from head trauma
  • * Having chronic (neurological) diseases which impact brain functioning (e.g.
  • mental health disorder, epilepsy)
  • * Having fluctuating smell ability
  • * Being deaf (or having hearing problems) or blind
  • * Being an employee at the division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen
  • * Performing a thesis or internship at the chair group Sensory Science and
  • Eating Behaviour at the division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen

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