Obesity is a global health problem with a broad set of comorbidities, such as malnutrition,
metabolic syndrome, diabetes, systemic hypertension, heart failure, and kidney failure. This …

Functional, molecular and genetic neuroimaging has highlighted the existence of brain
anomalies and neural vulnerability factors related to obesity and eating disorders such as …

Objectives This review focuses on the relationship between obesity and aging and how
these interact to affect cognitive function. The topics covered are guided by the Scaffolding …

Background Obesity has been linked with subtle differences in brain structure. These
differences tend to be especially relevant in prefrontal cortex regions, areas which play an …

Obesity is associated with both structural and functional changes of the central nervous
system. While gray matter alterations in obesity point to a consistent reduction with …

Obesity is a major problem in the modern world causing a higher risk for various
cerebrovascular diseases causing a profound individual and societal burden. The …

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors defined by the presence of
abdominal obesity, glucose intolerance, hypertension and/or dyslipidemia. It is a major …

In primates including humans, the orbitofrontal cortex is the key brain region representing
the reward value and subjective pleasantness of the sight, smell, taste and texture of food. At …

Over the past decade, brain imaging has helped to better define eating disorder–related
brain circuitry. Brain research on gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) volumes had been …

Obesity-related structural brain alterations point to a consistent reduction in gray matter with
increasing body mass index (BMI) but changes in white matter have proven to be more …