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Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in Obesity

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An estimated one-third of American adults are obese 1, and the proportion of obese adults has been shown to increase with age through midlife 2. Obesity ­throughout the lifespan is associated with greater cardiovascular risk 2, 3 and increased mortality, 3, 4 as well as negative psychosocial sequelae 5 and psychiatric comorbidity 6, 7, including a variety of maladaptive eating/dieting ­patterns (e.g., binge eating, emotional eating, weight cycling). 8, 9

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Stanek, K., Smith, J., Gunstad, J. (2011). Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in Obesity. In: Cohen, R., Sweet, L. (eds) Brain Imaging in Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6373-4_13

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