Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide and are amongst the
leading causes of death. Participants with obesity also suffer from poorer mental health with …

Background Recent research suggests that preintervention functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) data may predict weight loss outcomes among patients who participate in a …

Objective Few studies have examined brain changes in response to effective weight loss;
none have compared different methods of weight‐loss intervention. Functional brain …

Abstract Changes in eating behaviour including reductions in appetite and food intake, and
healthier food cue reactivity, reward, hedonics and potentially also preference, contribute to …

Results: SG patients lost an average of 29.0% of their weight (percentage of total weight loss
(% TWL)) at 12-month post-SG, with significant variability (range: 16.0–43.5%). Maladaptive …

Bariatric surgery has emerged as an increasingly popular weight loss intervention, with
larger and more endurable weight loss compared to pharmacological and behavioural …

Of current obesity treatments, bariatric surgery induces the most weight loss. Given the
marked increase in the number of bariatric surgeries performed, elucidating the mechanisms …

In an elegant, well-conducted and uniquely multidimensional study, Scholtz et al1 used
functional MRI (fMRI) to demonstrate that(morbidly) obese patients after Roux-en-Y gastric …

The rate of obesity in the US is at an all-time high of 42.4%, with 9.2% of cases falling in the
severe obesity category. Bariatric surgery results in significant weight loss through two of the …

Objective While overall success rates of bariatric surgery are high, approximately 20% of
patients either regain or never lose the expected amount of weight. The purpose of this study …