It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

Childhood obesity rates have risen dramatically over the past few decades. Although obesity
has been linked to poorer neurocognitive functioning in adults, much less is known about …

Low socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood is associated with deficits in executive
function and changes in cortical morphology. Furthermore, rates of childhood obesity are …

The development of executive function is linked to maturation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in
childhood. Childhood obesity has been associated with changes in brain structure …

Post-ingestive signals conveying information about the nutritive properties of food are critical
for regulating ingestive behavior. Here, using an auction task concomitant to fMRI scanning …

Impulsivity towards food has been recognized as a potential factor leading to increased food
intake in obesity. Patients suffering from binge eating disorder (BED) form a specific …

Obesity is on the rise in all developed countries, and a large part of this epidemic has been
attributed to excess caloric intake, induced by ever present food cues and the easy …

An increasingly influential perspective conceptualizes both obesity and overeating as a food
addiction accompanied by corresponding brain changes. Because there are far-reaching …

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between the development of
executive function (EF) and obesity in children and adolescents. We reviewed 1,065 unique …

Neuroimaging is becoming increasingly common in obesity research as investigators try to
understand the neurological underpinnings of appetite and body weight in humans. Positron …