ReviewCurrent obesity reports2018
Cognitive Control of Eating: the Role of Memory in Appetite and Weight Gain.
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- Eating while distracted: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of distraction on concurrent and later energy intake in adults.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Watching Television While Eating Increases Food Intake: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Scrutinizing Domains of Executive Function in Binge Eating Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Reduction in sugar drink valuation and consumption with gamified executive control training.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- The influence of insulin on anticipation and consummatory reward to food intake: A functional imaging study on healthy normal weight and overweight subjects employing intranasal insulin delivery.Human brain mapping · 2022Trial
- The effect of intranasal insulin on appetite and mood in women with and without obesity: an experimental medicine study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Trial
- The role of memory ability, depth and mode of recall in the impact of memory on later consumption.Appetite · 2020Trial
- The Development and Validation of the Food Memory Bias Test for a Large-Scale Epidemiological Study in a Multiethnic Asian Population.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Glycogen drives the sensory activation of POMC neurons.Nature metabolism · 2026Article
- Evaluating bidirectional, longitudinal associations between adolescent executive control and eating behaviors.Appetite · 2026Article
- Brain Nutrient Sensing: A Unifying Framework.Annual review of physiology · 2026Review
- No evidence for general or food-specific inhibitory control deficits in overweight university students: findings from flanker and Food Go/Nogo tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Memory Function, Weight Loss, and Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Bariatric Surgery Patients: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study.Obesity facts · 2026Article
- Executive functioning difficulties in relation to food addiction, disordered eating attitudes, and metabolic syndrome markers among adolescents seeking obesity treatment: a cross-sectional analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and change in cognitive functioning in older adults.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Seeing Is Craving: Neural Dynamics of Appetitive Processing During Food-Cue Video Watching and Its Impact on Obesity.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Obesity and Inflammation in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Hormone research in paediatrics · 2025Article
- Examining the bidirectional longitudinal associations between body mass index and episodic memory following bariatric surgery.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2024Article
- Development and Evaluation of the "Eating More Consciously" Module of a Lifestyle Intervention Program to Prevent Medication-Induced Weight Gain in Psychiatric Patients: A One-Arm Pilot Study.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe present review organises the recent literature on the role of memory in eating behaviours and provides an overview of the current evidence relating to the associations between memory and weight gain. RECENT
findingsResearch over the last few years has highlighted working memory as an important cognitive process that underpins many aspects of appetite control. Recent work on episodic memory and appetite has replicated work showing that manipulating memory for recent eating affects later consumption and extended this work to examine associations between individual differences in memory and eating behaviours. Poorer episodic memory ability is related to a reduced sensitivity to internal states of hunger and satiety and a tendency towards uncontrolled eating. There is also recent evidence to suggest that working memory and episodic memory impairments are related to weight gain and high BMI. Working memory and episodic memory are core cognitive processes that are critical for food-related decision-making, and disruption to these processes contributes to problems with appetite control and weight gain, which suggests that weight loss programmes might be improved by the addition of cognitive training.
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