Article ; Online: Biobehavioral susceptibility for obesity in childhood: behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging studies of appetite
Physiology & Behavior. 2023 Aug. 04, p.114313-
2023 , Page(s) 114313–
Abstract: Modern food environments are conducive to overeating and weight gain, but not everyone develops obesity. One reason for this may be that individuals differ in appetitive characteristics, or traits, that manifest early in life and go on to influence their ...
Abstract | Modern food environments are conducive to overeating and weight gain, but not everyone develops obesity. One reason for this may be that individuals differ in appetitive characteristics, or traits, that manifest early in life and go on to influence their behavioral susceptibility to gain and maintain excess weight. Classic studies showing that eating behavior in children can be measured by behavioral paradigms such as tests of caloric compensation and eating in the absence of hunger inspired the development and validation of psychometric instruments to assess appetitive characteristics in children and infants. A large body of evidence now suggests that food approach traits increase obesity risk, while food avoidant traits, such as satiety responsiveness, decrease obesity risk. Twin studies and genetic association studies have demonstrated that appetitive characteristics are heritable, consistent with a biological etiology. However, family environment factors are also influential, with mounting evidence suggesting that genetic and environmental risk factors interact and correlate with consequences for child eating behavior and weight. Further, neuroimaging studies are revealing that individual differences in responses to visual food cues, as well as to small tastes and larger amounts of food, across a number of brain regions involved in reward/motivation, cognitive control and other functions, may contribute to individual variation in appetitive behavior. Growing evidence also suggests that variation on psychometric measures of appetite is associated with regional differences in brain structure, and differential patterns of resting state functional connectivity. Large prospective studies beginning in infancy promise to enrich our understanding of neural and other biological underpinnings of appetite and obesity development in early life, and how the interplay between genetic and environmental factors affects appetitive systems. The biobehavioral susceptibility model of obesity development and maintenance outlined in this narrative review has implications for prevention and treatment of obesity in childhood. |
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Keywords | brain ; childhood obesity ; children ; cognition ; etiology ; family relations ; hunger ; infancy ; models ; motivation ; risk ; satiety ; weight gain ; brain imaging ; eating behavior ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ; functional MRI ; food cue responsiveness ; FTO ; genome-wide ; polygenic obesity risk ; parent feeding ; self-regulation ; overweight |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2023-0804 |
Publishing place | Elsevier Inc. |
Document type | Article ; Online |
Note | Pre-press version |
ZDB-ID | 3907-x |
ISSN | 1873-507X ; 0031-9384 |
ISSN (online) | 1873-507X |
ISSN | 0031-9384 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114313 |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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