ReviewAppetite2018
Executive function in childhood obesity: Promising intervention strategies to optimize treatment outcomes.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
- Disinhibited Eating and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Parent-Child influences on child eating self-regulation and weight in early childhood: A systematic review.Appetite · 2022Pooled it
- Executive Functions in Predicting Weight Loss and Obesity Indicators: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Cognitive Training Therapy Improves the Effect of Hypocaloric Treatment on Subjects with Overweight/Obesity: A Randomised Clinical Trial.Nutrients · 2019Trial
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- Weight gain and brain development in the ABCD study cohort: A decade of insight and the road ahead.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Neurophysiological and executive function differences among underweight, overweight, and normal-weight children and adolescents.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Kindergarten-based obesity prevention trial based on self-regulation strategy: study protocol of the Wuhan preschoolers' healthy start project.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- The Impact of Different Types of Exercise on Executive Functions in Overweight/Obese Individuals: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Interplay between preclinical indices of obesity and neural signatures of fluid intelligence in youth.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Body mass index, internalizing behavior and executive function: examining trait-state effects from age 2 to 15.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exploring the Interaction Between Preschool Executive Control and Caregiver Emotion Socialization in Predicting Adolescent Weight Trajectories.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Variation in executive function relates to BMI increases in youth who were initially of a healthy weight in the ABCD Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Current and future pharmacotherapies for obesity in children and adolescents.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2023Review
- Inflammation, Executive Function, and Adiposity in Children With or at Risk for Obesity: A Pilot Study.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2023Article
- Influence of Executive Function Training on BMI, Food Choice, and Cognition in Children with Obesity: Results from the TOuCH Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Children's eating behaviours and related constructs: conceptual and theoretical foundations and their implications.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Review
- Is online self-regulatory training effective in weight control? A pilot experiment on adolescence obesity during coronavirus-19 lockdown.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
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- General and Food-Specific Impulsivity and Inhibition Related to Weight Management.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2022Article
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Abstract
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-balance behaviors. Children with obesity have well-documented deficits in EF, which may impede effectiveness of current, evidence-based treatments. This review examines top-down EF processes (e.g., inhibitory control, working memory, cognitive flexibility), as well as bottom-up automatic processes that interact with EFs (e.g., attentional bias, delay discounting) and their relation to weight-loss treatment success in children. It then evaluates EF-related interventions that may improve treatment response. Empirical studies that included an intervention purported to affect EF processes as well as pre-post measurements of EF and/or relative weight in populations ages 19 or younger with overweight/obesity were reviewed. Findings indicate that poorer EF may hinder treatment response. Moreover, there is preliminary evidence that behavioral weight loss intervention and physical activity may positively affect EF and that improvements in EF are related to enhanced weight loss. Finally, novel intervention strategies, such as computer training of core EFs, attention modification programs, and episodic future thinking, show promise in influencing both EFs and EF-related skills and weight. Further research is needed to provide more conclusive evidence of the efficacy of these interventions and additional applications and settings should be considered.
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