Pilot test of a novel food response and attention training treatment for obesity: Brain imaging data suggest actions shape valuation.

ABSTRACT: Elevated brain reward and attention region response, and weaker inhibitory region response to high-calorie food images have been found to predict future weight gain. These findings suggest that an intervention that reduces reward and attention region response and increases inhibitory control region response to such foods might reduce overeating. We conducted a randomized pilot experiment that tested the hypothesis that a multi-faceted food response and attention training with personalized high- and low-calorie food images would produce changes in behavioral and neural responses to food images and body fat compared to a control training with non-food images among community-recruited overweight/obese adults. Compared to changes observed in controls, completing the intervention was associated

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656010 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature