Background Obesity has been characterized by alterations in brain structure and function
associated with emotion processing and regulation. Particularly, aberrations in food‐related …

The brain's reward system is crucial to understand obesity in modern society, as increased
neural responsivity to reward can fuel the unhealthy food choices that are driving the …

It remains unknown whether obese individuals with more components of the metabolic
syndrome and/or prediabetes demonstrate altered activation of brain centers in response to …

BACKGROUND: An important step in obesity research involves identifying neurobiological
underpinnings of nonfood reward processing unique to specific subgroups of obese …

Obese individuals exhibit brain functional abnormalities in multiple regions implicated in
reward/motivation, emotion/memory, homeostatic regulation, and executive control when …

Obesity is a complex disorder associated with serious health risks. Examining differences in
brain activity between normal weight and obese populations in response to food cues may …

Objectives: Obesity is associated with hyperactivation of the reward system for high-calorie
(HC) versus low-calorie (LC) food cues, which encourages unhealthy food selection and …

Behavioral studies have suggested that exaggerated reactivity to food cues, especially those
associated with high-calorie foods, may be a factor underlying obesity. This increased …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with food avoidance and
malnutrition. In this study, we wanted to test whether we would find brain reward alterations …

The dysregulation of food intake in chronic obesity has been explained by different theories.
To assess their explanatory power, we meta-analyzed 22 brain-activation imaging studies …