Neural Responses to Visual Food Cues According to Weight Status: A Systematic Review of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

Frontiers in Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pursey, Kirrilly M ^a   Stanwell, Peter ^b   Callister, Robert J ^b   Brain, Katherine ^a   Collins, Clare E ^a   Burrows, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

fMRI; food cues; functional magnetic resonance imaging; obesity; visual; weight status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920073056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2014.00007     Document Type: Review

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