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Altered Visual Plasticity in Morbidly Obese Subjects.
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- Short-term homeostatic visual neuroplasticity in adolescents after two hours of monocular deprivation.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Internal neural states influence the short-term effect of monocular deprivation in human adults.eLife · 2023Article
- Effect of fasting on short-term visual plasticity in adult humans.The European journal of neuroscience · 2023Article
- Transcranial random noise stimulation and exercise do not modulate ocular dominance plasticity in adults with normal vision.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Exercise alone impacts short-term adult visual neuroplasticity in a monocular deprivation paradigm.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Bariatric surgery restores visual cortical plasticity in nondiabetic subjects with obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Bypassing TBI: Metabolic Surgery and the Link between Obesity and Traumatic Brain Injury-a Review.Obesity surgery · 2020Review
- Brief period of monocular deprivation drives changes in audiovisual temporal perception.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Using psychophysical performance to predict short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Affective Variables and Cognitive Performances During Exercise in a Group of Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Growing evidence indicates a close link between energy metabolism and neural plasticity as obesity is associated with alterations of cognitive functions, memory, and hippocampal neurogenesis. However, it is still unknown whether obesity can affect low-level sensory plasticity. Here we investigated this issue by probing early visual plasticity induced by short-term (2 h) monocular deprivation in a group of adult volunteers with a wide range of Body Mass Index (BMI), from normal weight to morbid obesity. We found that the effect of monocular deprivation decreased with increasing BMI, and morbidly obese subjects (BMI>40) failed to show the homeostatic plasticity effect seen in normal-weight participants. In addition, morbidly obese subjects exhibited altered binocular rivalry dynamics compared with normal-weight observers. These results show for the first time that the impact of obesity observed at the neural and cognitive level extends to basic sensory processing and plasticity.
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