Increased food choice-evoked brain activation in adolescents with excess weight: relationship with subjective craving and behavior

M Moreno-Padilla, J Verdejo-Román… - Appetite, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain regions
associated with food choices between appetizing (ie, high sugar, high fat) and plain food in …

Neural correlates of appetite in adolescents

L Chen, G Thapaliya, A Papantoni, L Benson, S Carnell - Appetite, 2023 - Elsevier
Appetitive characteristics are associated with child adiposity, but their biological
underpinnings are unclear. We sought to investigate the neural correlates of psychometric …

Obese children show hyperactivation to food pictures in brain networks linked to motivation, reward and cognitive control

AS Bruce, LM Holsen, RJ Chambers… - International journal of …, 2010 - nature.com
Objective: To investigate the neural mechanisms of food motivation in children and
adolescents, and examine brain activation differences between healthy weight (HW) and …

Neural mechanisms underlying food motivation in children and adolescents

LM Holsen, JR Zarcone, TI Thompson, WM Brooks… - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Dramatic increases in childhood obesity necessitate a more complete understanding of
neural mechanisms of hunger and satiation in pediatric populations. In this study, normal …

Do scores on the Food Craving Inventory and Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire correlate with expected brain regions of interest in people with obesity?

CN Kahathuduwa, T Davis, M O'Boyle, M Binks - Physiology & behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To examine whether subscales of Food Craving Inventory (FCI) and Three-factor
Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) correlate with brain functional magnetic resonance imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental differences in the brain response to unhealthy food cues: an fMRI study of children and adults

F van Meer, LN van der Laan, L Charbonnier… - The American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background: Food cues are omnipresent and may trigger overconsumption. In the past 2
decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically. Because …

Neural processing of food cues in pre‐pubertal children

S Luo, J Alves, K Hardy, X Wang, J Monterosso… - Pediatric …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Background/Objectives Neuroimaging investigations of brain pathways involved
in reward and motivation have primarily focused on adults. This study sought to identify brain …

Youth at risk for obesity show greater activation of striatal and somatosensory regions to food

E Stice, S Yokum, KS Burger, LH Epstein… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Obese humans, compared with normal-weight humans, have less striatal D2 receptors and
striatal response to food intake; weaker striatal response to food predicts weight gain for …

Effects of cognitive strategies on neural food cue reactivity in adults with overweight/obesity

KE Demos McDermott, J Lillis, JM McCaffery… - Obesity, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of obesity have revealed
key roles for reward‐related and inhibitory control–related activity in response to food cues …

Greater corticolimbic activation to high-calorie food cues after eating in obese vs. normal-weight adults

A Dimitropoulos, J Tkach, A Ho, J Kennedy - Appetite, 2012 - Elsevier
The goal of this research is to identify the neural response to rewarding food cues before
and after eating in overweight/obese (OB) and normal-weight (NW) adults. Based on the …