Background Previous research has demonstrated significant relationships between obesity
and brain structure. Both phenotypes are heritable, but it is not known whether they are …

Background: Body weight and adiposity are heritable traits. To date, it remains unknown
whether obesity-associated brain structural alterations are under a similar level of genetic …

Background Substantial efforts have been made to investigate the neurobiological
underpinnings of human obesity with a number of studies indicating a profound influence of …

Abstract Background/Aims: Obesity is a major contributor to the global burden of chronic
disease and disability, though current knowledge of causal biologic underpinnings is …

Objective Obesity risk transmits from parents to children. Underlying neural mechanisms
were investigated in this study by evaluating influences of familial obesity risk defined by …

Recent molecular genetic studies have shown that the majority of genes associated with
obesity are expressed in the central nervous system. Obesity has also been associated with …

Childhood obesity is a serious health concern that is not yet fully understood. Previous
research has linked obesity with neurobehavioral factors such as behavior, cognition, and …

Childhood obesity has become a global health problem. Previous studies showed that
childhood obesity is associated with brain structural differences relative to controls …

Evidence from previous studies suggests that elevated body mass index (BMI) and genetic
risk for obesity is associated with reduced brain volume, particularly in areas of reward …

The overall volume of the brain has been found to be under relatively strong genetic control,
but the relative strength of genetic and environmental factors on between-person variations …