Trial reportPhysiology & behavior2015
A pilot randomized trial of a cognitive reappraisal obesity prevention program.
Trial report in Physiology & behavior, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03557710 (Devaluing Energy-dense Foods for Cancer-control), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Devaluing Energy-dense Foods for Cancer-control: Translational Neuroscience
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Executive Functions in Predicting Weight Loss and Obesity Indicators: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of total fat intake on bodyweight in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of total fat intake on bodyweight in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2016Pooled it
- Randomized target engagement trial of a dissonance-based transdiagnostic eating disorder treatment versus transdiagnostic interpersonal psychotherapy.Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of a food response and attention training treatment for obesity: A randomized placebo controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Enhancing efficacy of a dissonance-based obesity and eating disorder prevention program: Experimental therapeutics.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- Moderators of two dual eating disorder and obesity prevention programs.Behaviour research and therapy · 2019Trial
- Mediators of two selective prevention interventions targeting both obesity and eating disorders.Behaviour research and therapy · 2018Trial
- Pilot test of a novel food response and attention training treatment for obesity: Brain imaging data suggest actions shape valuation.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Trial
- Cognitive reappraisal of food and emotion cues involves common and unique neural contributions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Breaking the Link Between Negative Emotion and Unhealthy Eating: the Role of Emotion Regulation.Affective science · 2023Article
- Food Attention Bias: appetite comes with eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- An Exploration of the Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage in Promoting Obesity and Health Disparities.Current obesity reports · 2021Review
- Multivariate neural signatures for health neuroscience: assessing spontaneous regulation during food choice.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Health, pleasure, and fullness: changing mindset affects brain responses and portion size selection in adults with overweight and obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Regulation of Craving and Negative Emotion in Alcohol Use Disorder.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesEvaluate a selective obesity prevention program promoting use of cognitive reappraisals to reduce reward region response and increase inhibitory region response to high-fat/high-sugar foods and reduce intake of fat and sugar to prevent blunted reward region response to intake of such foods. SUBJECTS/
methodsYoung adults at risk for future weight gain by virtue of weight concerns (N=148) were randomized to this new prevention program (Minding Health), an alternative prevention program promoting participant-driven gradual reductions in caloric intake and increases in physical activity (Healthy Weight), or an obesity education video control condition, completing assessments at pre-, post-, and 6-month follow-up. A subset of Minding Health and control participants completed an fMRI scan at pre- and post-assessing neural response to images of high-fat/sugar foods and to receipt and anticipated receipt of a high-fat/sugar food.
resultsMinding Health participants showed significantly greater reductions in body fat than controls and caloric intake from fat and sugar than Healthy Weight participants. Minding Health participants also showed greater activation of an inhibitory control region and reduced activation of an attention/expectation region in response to palatable food images relative to pretest and controls. However, Healthy Weight participants showed greater reductions in BMI and eating disorder symptoms than Minding Health participants.
conclusionsAlthough the Minding Health intervention produced some of the hypothesized effects, it did not produce lasting reductions in body fat or BMI and showed limited effects on neural responsivity, implying it will be vital to increase the efficacy of this new prevention program.
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