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 …

Background The global prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity is high. Lifestyle
changes towards a healthy diet, increased physical activity and reduced sedentary activities …

Personalized cognitive-behavioural therapy for obesity (CBT-OB) is a new treatment that
combines the traditional procedures of standard behavioural therapy for obesity (ie, self …

The aim of this review is to critically evaluate the effectiveness and candidate mechanisms of
action of psychological interventions which aim to either (a) improve the capacity for self …

Elevated brain reward and attention region response, and weaker inhibitory region
response to high-calorie food images have been found to predict future weight gain. These …

Recent molecular genetic studies have shown that the majority of genes associated with
obesity are expressed in the central nervous system. Obesity has also been associated with …

Purpose Emotional eating is important to study and address because it predicts poor
outcome in weight loss interventions. Interventions have only touched the surface in terms of …

Executive functions (EFs) are hypothesized to play a role in the development and
maintenance of obesity due to their role in self-regulatory processes that manage energy …

Obesity has inconsistent associations with broad personality domains, possibly because the
links pertain to only some facets of these domains. Collating published and unpublished …

Obesity rates are rising worldwide. Executive function and delay discounting have been
hypothesized to play important roles in the self-regulation of behavior, and may explain …