ReviewCurrent obesity reports2017
What Twin Studies Tell Us About Brain Responses to Food Cues.
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- Using Educational Videos and Perspective-Taking to Communicate Gene-By-Environment Interaction Concepts about Eating Behavior: Effects on Empathy and Weight Stigma.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2023Trial
- From Risks to Roots: The Multifactorial Etiopathogenesis of Childhood Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Reassessing relationships between appetite and adiposity in people at risk of obesity: A twin study using fMRI.Physiology & behavior · 2021Article
- Strategies to Understand the Weight-Reduced State: Genetics and Brain Imaging.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Review
- Salience network connectivity is reduced by a meal and influenced by genetic background and hypothalamic gliosis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Central Nervous System and Peripheral Hormone Responses to a Meal in Children.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2019Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using visual food cues provides insight into brain regulation of appetite in humans. This review sought evidence for genetic determinants of these responses. RECENT
findingsEchoing behavioral studies of food cue responsiveness, twin study approaches detect significant inherited influences on brain response to food cues. Both polygenic (whole genome) factors and polymorphisms in single genes appear to impact appetite regulation, particularly in brain regions related to satiety perception. Furthermore, genetic confounding might underlie findings linking obesity to stereotypical response patterns on fMRI, i.e., associations with obesity may actually reflect underlying inherited susceptibilities rather than acquired levels of adiposity. Insights from twin studies show that genes powerfully influence brain regulation of appetite, emphasizing the role of inherited susceptibility factors in obesity risk. Future research to delineate mechanisms of inherited obesity risk could lead to novel or more targeted interventional approaches.
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