Dementia is arguably the most pressing public health challenge of our age. Since dementia
does not have a cure, identifying risk factors that can be controlled has become paramount …

Objective Dementia has a multifactorial etiology, but the importance of individual health and
lifestyle related risk factors is often uncertain or based on few studies. The goal of this paper …

Obesity is a multifactorial disease in which environmental conditions and several genes play
an important role in the development of this disease. Obesity is associated with …

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

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 …

It is of vital importance to understand how the foods which are making us fat also act to
impair cognition. In this review, we compare the effects of acute and chronic exposure to …

This review was aimed at systematically investigating the evidence suggesting that obese
individuals demonstrate impaired performance on behavioural tasks examining executive …

Due to a sedentary lifestyle, more and more people are becoming obese nowadays. In
addition to health‐related problems, obesity can also impair cognition and motor …

Obesity presents a major health hazard of the 21st century. It promotes co-morbid diseases
such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and …

Over two-thirds of individuals aged 65 and older are obese or overweight in the United
States. Epidemiological data show an association between the degree of adiposity and …