Eat now or later: self-control as an overlapping cognitive mechanism of depression and obesity

In this 2017 study, Korean children and adolescents were tested on their cognitive function [assessing symbol digit modalities (SDMT), verbal memory, visual memory, shift attention, reasoning, and digit span], while their diets were also examined to discover how dietary consumption may affect cognitive ability. Considering standard deviation value, the girls’ reaction times were significantly shorter […]

Recent studies have examined how cognitive functioning affects eating behaviors in great detail. The degree of cognitive impairment in food addiction (FA) and binge eating disorder (BED) is largely unknown. This study by Iceta et al. (2021) aimed to characterize neurocognitive functioning in people with BED and FA, utilizing performances on neuropsychological tasks in the […]