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SUBMITTER: Pearce AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5679722 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pearce Alaina L AL Mackey Eleanor E Cherry J Bradley C JBC Olson Alexandra A You Xiaozhen X Magge Sheela N SN Mietus-Snyder Michele M Nadler Evan P EP Vaidya Chandan J CJ
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20171101 11
<h4>Objective</h4>Neurocognitive deficits in pediatric obesity relate to poor developmental outcomes. We sought preliminary evidence for changes in brain and cognitive functioning relevant to obesogenic behavior following vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) in adolescents relative to wait-listed (WL) and healthy controls (HC).<h4>Methods</h4>Thirty-six adolescents underwent fMRI twice 4 months apart, during executive, reward, and episodic memory encoding, in addition to behavioral testing for rewa ...[more]