Prior research has suggested that obesity/overweight may be associated with deficits in
executive function. If true, this has important clinical implications. In this review, we …

Emotion regulation is the ability to recruit processes to influence emotion generation. In
recent years there has been mounting interest in how emotions are regulated at behavioural …

Craving is a core feature of substance use disorders. It is a strong predictor of substance use
and relapse and is linked to overeating, gambling, and other maladaptive behaviors …

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

Highlights•Emotion regulation serves to modify the nature, intensity or duration of
emotions.•Prefrontal cortex may modulate subcortical structures when regulating …

Emotion regulation is a critical life skill that develops throughout childhood and
adolescence. Despite this development in emotional processes, little is known about how …

Species-expected caregiving early in life is critical for the normative development and
regulation of emotional behavior, the ability to effectively evaluate affective stimuli in the …

The dysregulation of food intake in chronic obesity has been explained by different theories.
To assess their explanatory power, we meta-analyzed 22 brain-activation imaging studies …

Obesity rates continue to rise alarmingly, with dire health implications. One contributing
factor is that individuals frequently forgo healthy foods in favor of inexpensive, high-calorie …

Disordered eating is often associated with marked psychological and emotional distress,
and severe adverse impact on quality of life. Several factors can influence eating behavior …