Functional brain networks associated with eating behaviors in obesity.

ABSTRACT: Obesity causes critical health problems including diabetes and hypertension that affect billions of people worldwide. Obesity and eating behaviors are believed to be closely linked but their relationship through brain networks has not been fully explored. We identified functional brain networks associated with obesity and examined how the networks were related to eating behaviors. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were obtained for 82 participants. Data were from an equal number of people of healthy weight (HW) and non-healthy weight (non-HW). Connectivity matrices were computed with spatial maps derived using a group independent component analysis approach. Brain networks and associated connectivity parameters with significant group-wise differences were iden

SUBMITTER: Park BY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4814917 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature