Elevated reward response to receipt of palatable food predicts future weight variability in healthy-weight adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Background: Both an elevated brain-reward-region response to palatable food and elevated weight variability have been shown to predict future weight gain.Objective: We examined whether the brain-reward response to food is related to future weight variability.Design: A total of 162 healthy-weight adolescents, who were aged 14-18 y at baseline, were enrolled in the study and were assessed annually over a 3-y follow-up period with 127 participants completing the final 3-y follow-up assessment. With the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, we tested whether the neural responses to a cue that signaled an impending milkshake receipt and the receipt of the milkshake predicted weight variability over the follow-up period. Weight variability was modeled with a root mea

SUBMITTER: Winter SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5366045 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature