ArticleObesity surgery2018
Changes in Cerebral Cortical Thickness Related to Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery.
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- Neuroimaging Investigations of Obesity: a Review of the Treatment of Sex from 2010.Current obesity reports · 2023Pooled it
- Sex-related difference of subcortical gray matter volume associated with crystallized intelligence in young adults with obesity.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Impact of physical activity and body mass index on brain structure: A cross-sectional MRI study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Brain functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging of obesity and weight loss interventions.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- Bariatric surgery and its impact on depressive symptoms, cognition, brain and inflammation.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Depression and Anxiety Incidence During Pregnancy Between Bariatric Surgery Patients and Matched Control Subjects.Obesity surgery · 2022Article
- Body mass index but not genetic risk is longitudinally associated with altered structural brain parameters.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Effects of severe obesity and sleeve gastrectomy on cortical thickness in adolescents.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cerebral cortical thickness is associated with memory and intelligence test scores and serves as a measure for changes in cortical gray matter. Previous studies suggest reduced cortical thickness in patients with obesity. This study aimed to investigate changes in cortical thickness following bariatric surgery. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of five patients were analyzed preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively to assess changes in global measures of cortical thickness. No patients were lost to follow-up. This study provides preliminary evidence of brain change following surgery, suggests increases in cerebral cortical thickness in patients with greater excess weight loss, and indicates the need for further investigation using larger samples and correlation with neurocognitive measures, such as memory recall.
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