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Volume 15 | ESPEYB15 | Next issue

Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

11 Obesity and Weight Regulation

The brain decides weight gain

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11.9 Neural correlates of familial obesity risk and overweight in adolescence

S Carnell , L Benson , KY Chang , Z Wang , Y Huo , A Geliebter , BS Peterson

To read the full abstract: NeuroImage 2017; 159: 236-247The results of this study suggest that, compared to adolescents with a low risk, lean adolescents with a high familial obesity risk show a weaker activation of neural systems subserving attentional self-regulation in response to food-denoting words. These same changes were found in overweight or obese adolescents. It is interestin...