To tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time, the obesity epidemic and
climate change, novel interventions, regulations and public policies are needed to help …

The omnipresence of food cues in our environment stimulates overeating and contributes to
the obesity epidemic. The neural response when viewing these food cues could elucidate …

Theoretical work suggests that obesity is related to enhanced incentive salience of food
cues. However, evidence from both behavioral and neuroimaging studies on the topic is …

Objective: Health goal priming has been shown to stimulate healthy food choices by
activating an individual's weight-control goal. The present study combined fMRI with a novel …

Food choices are the foundation of eating habits and contribute to weight status and health.
Food choices are informed by expectations about a food's reward value learned through …

Although the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) correlates with elevated body
mass, it is unclear how it contributes to overeating. We tested if individuals with the A allele …

Neuroimaging methods are commonplace in behavioral and clinical research, including
nutritional science. Given the wide range of questions technologies like functional magnetic …

In western societies, with a large variety of palatable food continuously on offer, there is
rarely any occasion to eat something not tasty when being hungry. The amygdala is a key …