Neuroimaging and Obesity

Food Addiction, Obesity and Neuroimaging

This chapter will be dedicated to addressing various aspects of food addiction (where food is portrayed as being an addictive substance). It will encompass our group’s and colleagues’ newest neuroimaging research results and methods with respect to the findings of other researchers in the field. The chapter will attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of food addiction (FA) leading to obesity. It w...

Neuroimaging and obesity: current knowledge and future directions.

Neuroimaging is becoming increasingly common in obesity research as investigators try to understand the neurological underpinnings of appetite and body weight in humans. Positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies examining responses to food intake and food cues, dopamine function and brain volume in lean vs. obes...

The brain, obesity and addiction: an EEG neuroimaging study

Obesity is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare systems with 20% of the world's population afflicted. Great controversy exists whether obesity can be regarded as an addictive disorder or not. Recently the Yale Food Addiction Scale questionnaire has been developed as a tool to identify individuals with traits of addiction towards food. Using clinical and source localized EEG data we d...

The importance of behavioral anchoring in neuroimaging studies of obesity.

EDITORIALS The importance of behavioral anchoring in neuroimaging studies of obesity. MR Lowe See corresponding article on page 471. 451 Diet and diabetes revisited, yet again. JI Mann and L Te Morenga See corresponding articles on pages 505 and 584. 453 PERSPECTIVE Physiologic basis for understanding quantitative dehydration assessment. SN Cheuvront et al 455 ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS O...

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