Obesity-related differences between women and men in brain structure and goal-directed behavior

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Horstmann, Annette ^a,b   Busse, Franziska P ^b   Mathar, David ^a,b   Müller, Karsten ^a   Lepsien, Jöran ^a   Schlögl, Haiko ^b   Kabisch, Stefan ^b   Kratzsch, Jürgen ^b   Neumann, Jane ^a,b   Stumvoll, Michael ^b   Villringer, Arno ^a,b,c   Pleger, Burkhard ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain structure; Gender difference; Iowa gambling task; Obesity; Reward system; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GOAL DIRECTED BEHAVIOR; GRAY MATTER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBESITY; ORBITAL CORTEX; OVERNUTRITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 82955235664     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00058     Document Type: Article

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