Obesity is a global health problem with a broad set of comorbidities, such as malnutrition,
metabolic syndrome, diabetes, systemic hypertension, heart failure, and kidney failure. This …

Drug addiction and obesity appear to share several properties. Both can be defined as
disorders in which the saliency of a specific type of reward (food or drug) becomes …

The ability to resist the urge to eat requires the proper functioning of neuronal circuits
involved in top-down control to oppose the conditioned responses that predict reward from …

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 …

Recent research suggests that increased adiposity is associated with poor cognitive
performance, independently of associated medical conditions. The evidence regarding this …

Both drug addiction and obesity can be defined as disorders in which the saliency value of
one type of reward (drugs and food, respectively) becomes abnormally enhanced relative to …

Common mechanisms in aging and obesity are hypothesized to increase susceptibility to
neurodegeneration, however, direct evidence in support of this hypothesis is lacking. We …

Obesity is defined as abnormal and excessive fat accumulation, and it is a risk factor for
developing metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive deficits. Obesity is …

Delay discounting (DD) is a measure of the degree to which an individual is driven by
immediate gratification vs. the prospect of larger, but delayed, rewards. Because of …

Using a population-based sampling strategy, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Study of Normal Brain Development compiled a longitudinal normative …