Efficacy of a food response and attention training treatment for obesity: A randomized placebo controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Elevated brain reward and attention region response, and weaker inhibitory region response to high-calorie foods has predicted future weight gain, suggesting that an intervention that reduces reward and attention region response and increases inhibitory region response to such foods might reduce overeating. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to test whether a multi-faceted food response and attention training protocol with personalized high- and low-calorie food images would reduce body fat and valuation and reward region response to high-calorie foods compared to a placebo control training protocol with non-food images in an effort to replicate findings from two past trials. Participants were community-recruited adults with overweight/obesity (N = 179; M age = 27.7 ± 7.0) who comp

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10392892 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature