The Iowa gambling task as a measure of decision making in women with bulimia nervosa

According to Dohle et al. (2018), people aiming to lose weight require high motivation and the capacity for successful self-regulation. This capacity is said to be strongly connected to executive functions, which consists of several inter-related higher-order cognitive processes that give people the ability to take goal-driven actions. This review analyzes how specific facets of […]

While the slow growth period seen before the prepubertal peak in growth rate has been shown to be a sensitive period where their transgenerational response varies based on food availability, Kaati et al. (2007) examined probands (the first affected family member who seeks medical attention for a genetic disorder) to assess whether their childhood circumstances […]