Brain functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging of obesity and weight loss interventions

G Li, Y Hu, W Zhang, J Wang, W Ji, P Manza… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Appetite Self-Regulation in Childhood: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Model of Processes and Mechanisms With Implications for Research and Practice

CG Russell, A Russell - Nutrition Reviews, 2025 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of the present narrative review was to propose a unifying generalized
conceptual model of mechanisms and processes in appetite self-regulation (ASR) in …

The maternal brain is more flexible and responsive at rest: effective connectivity of the parental caregiving network in postpartum mothers

ER Orchard, K Voigt, S Chopra, T Thapa, PGD Ward… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The field of neuroscience has largely overlooked the impact of motherhood on brain function
outside the context of responses to infant stimuli. Here, we apply spectral dynamic causal …

Altered effective connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks in people with binge eating episodes: A spectral dynamic causal modeling study

X Chen, W Li, Y Liu, M Xiao, H Chen - Appetite, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Converging evidence points to the crucial role of brain connectivity involved in
aberrant behavioral control and reward reactivity in the onset and maintenance of binge …

[HTML][HTML] Altered connectivity patterns of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex underlie the severity of bulimic symptoms

W Li, X Chen, Y Luo, M Xiao, Y Liu, H Chen - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Compared to clinical bulimia nervosa, sub-threshold bulimic symptoms are
becoming more prevalent in non-clinical or general population, which is repeatedly linked …

Brain effective connectivity and functional connectivity as markers of lifespan vascular exposures in middle-aged adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study

KC Chuang, S Ramakrishnapillai, K Madden… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Effective connectivity (EC), the causal influence that functional activity in a
source brain location exerts over functional activity in a target brain location, has the …

[HTML][HTML] The differential orbitofrontal activity and connectivity between atypical and typical major depressive disorder

ZP Guo, L Chen, LR Tang, Y Gao, M Qu, L Wang… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2025 - Elsevier
Objective Atypical major depressive disorder (MDD) is a distinct subtype of MDD,
characterized by increased appetite and/or weight gain, excessive sleep, leaden paralysis …

[HTML][HTML] Altered hippocampal effective connectivity predicts BMI and food approach behavior in children with obesity

W Li, X Chen, X Gao, Q Pang, C Guo, S Song… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Objective The vicious circle model of obesity proposes that the hippocampus plays a crucial
role in food reward processing and obesity. However, few studies focused on whether and …

Aberrant Brain Triple-Network Effective Connectivity Patterns in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Y Zhang, X Yin, YC Chen, H Chen, M Jin, Y Ma… - Diabetes Therapy, 2024 - Springer
Introduction Aberrant brain functional connectivity network is thought to be related to
cognitive impairment in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study aims to …

Dynamic vagal-mediated connectivity of cortical and subcortical central autonomic hubs predicts chronotropic response to submaximal exercise in healthy adults

M Di Bello, C Chang, R McIntosh - Brain and cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Despite accumulation of a substantial body of literature supporting the role of
exercise on frontal lobe functioning, relatively less is understood of the interconnectivity of …