Frontal cortical thinning and subcortical volume reductions in early adulthood obesity

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-115

  Marqués Iturria, Idoia ^a,b   Pueyo, Roser ^a,b,c   Garolera, Maite ^c,d   Segura, Bàrbara ^a,c   Junqué, Carme ^a,c,f   García García, Isabel ^a,b   José Sender Palacios, María ^e   Vernet Vernet, María ^e   Narberhaus, Ana ^a   Ariza, Mar ^a,b,c   Jurado, María Ángeles ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Institute for Brain Cognition and Behavior (IR3C)   (Spain)

^c Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Neuropsicologia (SGR0941)   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^e CAP Terrassa Nord   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Frontal lobe; Hypothalamus; Inhibition; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBESITY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

CORTICAL THICKNESS; FRONTAL LOBE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INHIBITION; OBESITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBESITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884821465     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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