Getting to the heart of the matter: Does aberrant interoceptive processing contribute towards emotional eating?

ABSTRACT: According to estimates from Public Health England, by 2034 70% of adults are expected to be overweight or obese, therefore understanding the underpinning aetiology is a priority. Eating in response to negative affect contributes towards obesity, however, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Evidence that visceral afferent signals contribute towards the experience of emotion is accumulating rapidly, with the emergence of new influential models of 'active inference'. No longer viewed as a 'bottom up' process, new interoceptive facets based on 'top down' predictions have been proposed, although at present it is unclear which aspects of interoception contribute to aberrant eating behaviour and obesity. Study one examined the link between eating behaviour, body mass index and the no

SUBMITTER: Young HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646794 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature