Obesity: Cognitive impairment and the failure to 'eat right'

Terry L Davidson; Ashley A Martin

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.031

Obesity: Cognitive impairment and the failure to 'eat right'

Curr Biol. 2014 Aug 4;24(15):R685-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.031.

Authors

Terry L Davidson¹, Ashley A Martin²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA. Electronic address: terryd@american.edu.
² Nutrition and Behaviour Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Electronic address: ashley.martin@bristol.ac.uk.

PMID: 25093558
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.031

Abstract

A recent study has found that obese women (but not men) have difficulty inhibiting food-rewarded, but not money-rewarded, appetitive behaviour, suggesting that obesity is associated with cognitive deficits that could selectively promote food intake, perhaps in a sex-dependent manner.

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MeSH terms

Association Learning*
Cues*
Female
Food*
Humans
Male
Obesity / psychology*
Reward*