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SUBMITTER: Yokum S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4236252 | biostudies-other | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yokum Sonja S Gearhardt Ashley N AN Harris Jennifer L JL Brownell Kelly D KD Stice Eric E
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20140825 12
<h4>Objective</h4>Adolescents view thousands of food commercials annually, but little is known about how individual differences in neural response to food commercials relate to weight gain. To add to our understanding of individual risk factors for unhealthy weight gain and environmental contributions to the obesity epidemic, we tested the associations between reward region (striatum and orbitofrontal cortex [OFC]) responsivity to food commercials and future change in body mass index (BMI).<h4>M ...[more]