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Behind binge eating: A review of food-specific adaptations of neurocognitive and neuroimaging tasks
Physiology & behavior, v 176, pp 59-70
01 Jul 2017
PMID: 28363840
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Abstract
Recurrent binge eating, or overeating accompanied by a sense of loss of control, is a major public health concern. Identifying similarities and differences among individuals with binge eating and those with other psychiatric symptoms and characterizing the deficits that uniquely predispose individuals to eating problems are essential to improving treatment. Research suggests that altered reward and control-related processes may contribute to dysregulated eating and other impulsive behaviors in binge-eating populations, but the best methods for reliably assessing the contributions of these processes to binge eating are unclear. In this review, we summarize standard neurocognitive and neuroimaging tasks that assess reward and control-related processes, describe adaptations of these tasks used to study eating and food-specific responsivity and deficits, and consider the advantages and limitations of these tasks. Future studies integrating both general and food-specific tasks with neuroimaging will improve understanding of the neurocognitive processes and neural circuits that contribute to binge eating and could inform novel interventions that more directly target or prevent this transdiagnostic behavior.
•Altered reward and control-related processes may contribute to binge eating.•Food-specific and general neurocognitive mechanisms of binge eating remain unclear.•Adapted neurocognitive tasks use food stimuli to study disease-specific responses.•We discuss strengths and limitations of these task adaptations.•Studies using general and food-specific tasks across diagnoses are needed.
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- Title
- Behind binge eating: A review of food-specific adaptations of neurocognitive and neuroimaging tasks
- Creators
- Laura A. Berner - University of California, San DiegoSamantha R. Winter - Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBrittany E. Matheson - University of California, San DiegoLeora Benson - Drexel UniversityMichael R. Lowe - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Physiology & behavior, v 176, pp 59-70
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000402212000009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85017413711
- Other Identifier
- 991019169035904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Behavioral Sciences
- Psychology, Biological