ArticlePediatric obesity2020
Executive functioning and disinhibited eating in children and adolescents.
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- Disinhibited Eating and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Italian Validation of the Delaying Gratification Inventory in Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Children with lower ratings of executive functions have a greater response to the portion size effect.Appetite · 2023Article
- Associations of food reinforcement and food- related inhibitory control with adiposity and weight gain in children and adolescents.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Heart Rate Variability and Laboratory-Based Loss-of-Control Eating in Children and Adolescents.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Retrieval-induced forgetting in children and adolescents with and without obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
- How Impulsiveness Influences Obesity: The Mediating Effect of Resting-State Brain Activity in the dlPFC.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Trait self-control and disinhibited eating in COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived mortality threat and negative affect.Appetite · 2021Article
- Food cravings and loss-of-control eating in youth: Associations with gonadal hormone concentrations.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Exploring the relationship between appetitive behaviours, executive function, and weight status among preschool children.Pediatric obesity · 2021Article
- Do Hot Executive Functions Relate to BMI and Body Composition in School Age Children?Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundExecutive functioning (EF) difficulties may be associated with problems regulating eating behaviours. Few studies have evaluated this question in youth using diverse measures of EF or objective measures of energy intake.
methodsThe current study used neuropsychological tasks and a laboratory test meal to evaluate the links between EF and youth's disinhibited eating patterns. Two-hundred-five nontreatment seeking youth (M age = 13.1 ± 2.8 years; M BMIz = 0.6 ± 1.0; 33.2% overweight; 54.1% female) completed tasks measuring decision making, general and food-specific behavioural disinhibition, willingness to delay gratification for food and money, cognitive flexibility, and working memory. Age (children vs adolescents) was examined as a moderator. All analyses adjusted for demographic factors, pubertal status, lean mass (kg), fat mass (%), height, general intellectual functioning, and depressive symptoms.
resultsAfter adjusting for multiple comparisons, more general behavioural disinhibition was associated with greater total energy intake (P = .02), and poorer cognitive flexibility was associated with more fat intake (P = .03) across all ages. Poorer decision making in children (P = .04), but not adolescents (P = .24), was associated with greater fat intake. Food-specific behavioural disinhibition, the ability to delay gratification for both food and monetary rewards, and working memory were not significantly associated with youth's disinhibited eating patterns during a single meal.
conclusionsMost domains of EF were not associated with youth's disinhibited eating. Significant associations may highlight the need to target specific cognitive processes, particularly behavioural disinhibition, decision making, and cognitive flexibility, in potential intervention strategies for children's disinhibited eating.
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