SynthesisNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2013
Neurobehavioural correlates of body mass index and eating behaviours in adults: a systematic review.
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114 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 231 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Do eating behavior traits predict energy intake and body mass index? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Obesity has limited behavioural overlap with addiction and psychiatric phenotypes.Nature human behaviour · 2020Pooled it
- The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Questionnaire and behavioral task measures of impulsivity are differentially associated with body mass index: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
- Sex/gender differences in neural correlates of food stimuli: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Pooled it
- Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation.British journal of health psychology · 2016Pooled it
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- Impact of increasing the availability of healthier vs. less-healthy food on food selection: a randomised laboratory experiment.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Noninvasive neuromodulation of the prefrontal cortex in young women with obesity: a randomized clinical trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Trial
- Neuromodulation of the prefrontal cortex facilitates diet-induced weight loss in midlife women: a randomized, proof-of-concept clinical trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Trial
- Availability of healthier vs. less healthy food and food choice: an online experiment.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Neurobehavioral correlates of obesity are largely heritable.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Trial
- Child temperament predicts the adiposity rebound. A 9-year prospective sibling control study.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Neuromodulation targeted to the prefrontal cortex induces changes in energy intake and weight loss in obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2015Trial
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- Why don't poor men eat fruit? Socioeconomic differences in motivations for fruit consumption.Appetite · 2015Trial
- Increased impulsivity in response to food cues after sleep loss in healthy young men.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2014Trial
- Body Mass Index and Dietary Self-Regulation Are Associated with Attenuated Error Monitoring in Young Adults.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological and executive function differences among underweight, overweight, and normal-weight children and adolescents.Pediatric research · 2026Article
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Abstract
The worldwide increase in obesity has spurred numerous efforts to understand the regulation of eating behaviours and underlying brain mechanisms. These mechanisms can affordably be studied via neurobehavioural measures. Here, we systematically review these efforts, evaluating neurocognitive tests and personality questionnaires based on: (a) consistent relationship with obesity and eating behaviour, and (b) reliability. We also considered the measures' potential to shed light on the brain mechanisms underlying these individual differences. Sixty-six neurocognitive tasks were examined. Less than 11%, mainly measures of executive functions and food motivation, yielded both replicated and reliable effects. Several different personality questionnaires were consistently related to BMI. However, further analysis found that many of these questionnaires relate closely to Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Neuroticism within the Five-Factor Model of personality. Both neurocognitive tests and personality questionnaires suggest that the critical neural systems related to individual differences in obesity are lateral prefrontal structures underpinning self-control and striatal regions implicated in food motivation. This review can guide selection of the highest yield neurobehavioural measures for future studies.
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