ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2023
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation.
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- Comprehensive cognitive training improves anthropometric measures in people with excess weight: the TRAINEP randomized controlled trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of a smartphone-delivered Approach-Avoidance intervention in dietary behavior - a randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of a food response and attention training treatment for obesity: A randomized placebo controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Action Interpretation Determines the Effects of Go/No-Go and Approach/Avoidance Actions on Food Choice.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Response inhibition training as an intervention to modify liking and wanting for foods based on energy density: a proof of concept study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Central Regulation of Eating Behaviors in Humans: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging Studies.Nutrients · 2023Review
- The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2022Article
- Brain Responses to High-Calorie Visual Food Cues in Individuals with Normal-Weight or Obesity: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Plastic brain mechanisms supporting reduction in cravings induced by response training.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Food-specific go/no-go training might reduce overeating and facilitate weight loss. In this pilot study, we examined whether a food-specific go/no-go training over five weeks, as compared to a non-food-specific training, could produce changes in behavioral and neural responses to food images and body weight. Here, we used a sample of 51 overweight participants divided into training and control groups whose brain activity and food evaluation were measured before and after the training. Compared with the control group, in the training group we found significant reductions in high-calorie food evaluation. We also found lower activations in inhibitory control- and reward-related brain regions in response to high-calorie food images. Further, activation change of the mid-insula in response to the high-calorie food images was positively associated with change in the evaluation of those images. However, we found no evidence for a significant effect of food-specific go/no-go training on body weight change. Our findings highlight that food-specific go/no-go training in overweight individuals can reduce high-calorie food evaluation, but also neural activations in inhibitory control- and reward- related brain regions.
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