ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2024
Cortical thickness and childhood eating behaviors: differences according to sex and age, and relevance for eating disorders.
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- Eating Behavior Latent Profiles and Their Associations With Body Composition in Early Childhood: The CORALS Cohort.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Observational
- Neural Correlates of Eating Habits and Nutritional Behaviors in the General Population: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.Health science reports · 2025Review
- Neural responsivity to food cues varies with food fussiness in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- More similarity than difference: Comparison of within- and between-sex variance in early adolescent brain structure.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- More similarity than difference: comparison of within- and between-sex variance in early adolescent brain structure.Research square · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study investigated the association between childhood eating behaviors and cortical morphology, in relation to sex and age, in a community sample.
methodsNeuroimaging data of 71 children (mean age = 9.9 ± 1.4 years; 39 boys/32 girls) were obtained from the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample. Emotional overeating, food fussiness, and emotional undereating were assessed using the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire. Cortical thickness was obtained at 81,924 vertices covering the entire cortex. Generalized Linear Mixed Models were used for statistical analysis.
resultsThere was a significant effect of sex in the association between cortical thickness and emotional overeating (localized at the right postcentral and bilateral superior parietal gyri). Boys with more emotional overeating presented cortical thickening, whereas the opposite was observed in girls (p < 0.05). Different patterns of association were identified between food fussiness and cortical thickness (p < 0.05). The left rostral middle frontal gyrus displayed a positive correlation with food fussiness from 6 to 8 years, but a negative correlation from 12 to 14 years. Emotional undereating was associated with cortical thickening at the left precuneus, left middle temporal gyrus, and left insula (p < 0.05) with no effect of sex or age.
conclusionsLeveraging on a community sample, findings support distinct patterns of associations between eating behaviors and cortical thickness, depending on sex and age.
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