Obesity has tripled over the past 40 years to become a major public health issue, as it is
linked with increased mortality and elevated risk for various physical and neuropsychiatric …

Background Obesity has been linked with subtle differences in brain structure. These
differences tend to be especially relevant in prefrontal cortex regions, areas which play an …

Abstract Some Diffusion Tensor Imaging studies have shown a loss of white matter (WM)
integrity linked to impaired cognitive function in obese individuals. However, inconsistent …

Purpose To examine whether body fat rate (BF%) is associated with cardiorespiratory fitness
(CRF) and whether cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) mediates the association between BF …

Executive dysfunction is associated with the inability to control aberrant behaviors, such as
chronic overeating (Moore, Sabino, Koob, & Cottone, 2017). Obese individuals often report …

Childhood obesity is associated with alterations in brain structure. Previous studies
generally used a single structural index to characterize the relationship between body mass …

Obesity is a complex neurobehavioral disorder that has been linked to changes in brain
structure and function. However, the impact of obesity on functional connectivity and …

Abstract Background/Objectives Adverse effects of excess BMI (affecting 1 in 5 children in
the US) on brain circuits during neurodevelopmentally vulnerable periods are incompletely …

The links between obesity and cognition remain equivocal due to a variety of
methodological limitations with current research, such as an overreliance on body mass …

Obesity is one of the factors associated with cognitive impairment. However, obesity may
differently affect cognitive function in different age groups, and scarce data are available …