ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Self-regulation and obesity: the role of executive function and delay discounting in the prediction of weight loss.
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Sleep and Stigma: Novel Moderators in the Relationship Between Weight Status and Cognitive Function
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Executive Functions in Predicting Weight Loss and Obesity Indicators: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
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- Phenylketonuria as an Adherence Disease.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Review
- Body mass index, internalizing behavior and executive function: examining trait-state effects from age 2 to 15.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Executive Functions and Body Weight: Sex as a Moderating Variable.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Relation of BOLD response to food-specific and generic motor response inhibition tasks to body fat gain in adults with overweight and obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Reward and inhibition in obesity and cigarette smoking: Neurobiological overlaps and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Identification of a novel link between adiposity and visuospatial perception.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Supplementing a widely available weight loss program with gamified inhibitory control training: A randomized pilot study.Obesity science & practice · 2022Article
- The Neglected Factor in the Relationship between Executive Functioning and Obesity: The Role of Motor Control.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Functional Relationship between Inhibitory Control, Cognitive Flexibility, Psychomotor Speed and Obesity.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Executive Functions in Overweight and Obese Treatment-Seeking Patients: Cross-Sectional Data and Longitudinal Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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- Attention to food cues following media multitasking is associated with cross-sectional BMI among adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Obesity rates are rising worldwide. Executive function and delay discounting have been hypothesized to play important roles in the self-regulation of behavior, and may explain variance in weight loss treatment success. First, we compared individuals with obesity (n = 82) to healthy weight controls (n = 71) on behavioral and self-report measures of executive function (working memory, inhibition and shifting) and delay discounting. Secondly, the individuals with obesity took part in a multidisciplinary weight loss program and we examined whether executive function and delay discounting predicted weight change. Individuals with obesity displayed weaker general and food-specific inhibition, and weaker self-reported executive function. Better behavioral working memory and better self-reported inhibition skills in daily life were predictive of greater weight loss. As findings are correlational, future studies should investigate the causal relationship between executive function and weight loss, and test whether intervening on executive function will lead to better prevention and treatment of obesity.
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