Effects of Cognitive Strategies on Neural Food Cue Reactivity in Adults with Overweight/Obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of obesity have revealed key roles for reward-related and inhibitory control-related activity in response to food cues. This study examines how cognitive strategies impact neural food cue reactivity.

Methods

In a within-participants, block-design, fMRI paradigm, 30 participants (24 women; mean BMI = 31.8) used four mind-sets while viewing food: "distract" (cognitive behavioral therapy based), "allow" (acceptance and commitment therapy based), "later" (focusing on long-term negative consequences), and "now" (control; focusing on immediate rewards). Participants rated cravings by noting urges to eat on four-point Likert scales after each block.

Results

Self-reported cravings significantly differed among all

SUBMITTER: Demos McDermott KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6844254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature