BACKGROUND Obesity is caused by an imbalance between energy intake, ie eating and
energy expenditure (EE). Severe obesity is more prevalent in women than men worldwide …

Abstract In May 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated its intent to “require
applicants to consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in the design and analysis of NIH …

Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis function fundamentally affects the physiology of
eating. We review sex differences in the physiological and pathophysiological controls of …

Emerging evidence from recent neuroimaging studies suggests that specific food-related
behaviors contribute to the development of obesity. The aim of this review was to report the …

Food product-extrinsic sounds (ie, those auditory stimuli that are not linked directly to a food
or beverage product, or its packaging) have been shown to exert a significant influence over …

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 …

Functional neuroimaging studies in obesity have identified alterations in the connectivity
within the reward network leading to decreased homeostatic control of ingestive behavior …

Purpose Eating disorders and their core symptoms (eg, binge eating, body weight/shape
concerns) disproportionately affect females, and these sex-differentiated effects become …

Sex and gender differences in food perceptions and eating behaviours have been reported
in psychological and behavioural studies. The aim of this systematic review was to …

Abstract Purpose of Review To summarize the results of adult obesity neuroimaging studies
(structural, resting-state, task-based, diffusion tensor imaging) published from 2010, with a …