Decision making deficits in relation to food cues influence obesity: a triadic neural model of problematic eating

Obesity and overweight conditions place fifth on the list of causes of preventable deaths across the world. Being overweight is implicit in negative overall health due to several factors, including enhanced inflammatory conditions and cognitive derangements. Previous evidence postulates the presence of a vicious cycle where obesity leads to enhanced inflammatory activity that results in […]

Since a particular region of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) has been identified as an area where activity was lower among obese individuals compared with normal-weight people, Kohl et al. (2019) decided to investigate what would happen to the dietary behaviors of overweight/obese subjects if functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed […]